String scattering in flat space and a scaling limit of Yang-Mills correlators

TL;DR

This paper establishes a connection between flat space string scattering amplitudes and a specific scaling limit of N=4 super Yang-Mills correlators, suggesting a non-perturbative, high-energy relation derived via the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Contribution

It introduces a simple relation linking string scattering amplitudes to Yang-Mills correlators in a particular limit, extending the AdS/CFT framework to high-energy regimes.

Findings

Derived a relation between string scattering and Yang-Mills correlators.

Proposed the relation holds non-perturbatively and at high energies.

Provided a new perspective on flat space limits in AdS/CFT.

Abstract

We use the flat space limit of the AdS/CFT correspondence to derive a simple relation between the 2 to 2 scattering amplitude of massless string states in type IIB superstring theory on ten-dimensional Minkowski space and a scaling limit of the N=4 super Yang-Mills four point functions. We conjecture that this relation holds non-perturbatively and at arbitrarily high energy.