Holographic Corrections to Meson Scattering Amplitudes

Understand

We compute meson scattering amplitudes using the holographic duality between confining gauge theories and string theory, in order to consider holographic corrections to the Veneziano amplitude and associated higher-point functions.

• The generic nature of such computations is explained, thanks to the well-understood nature of confining string backgrounds, and two different examples of the calculation in given backgrounds are used to illustrate the details.
• The effect we discover, whilst only qualitative, is re-obtainable in many such examples, in four-point but also higher point amplitudes.