1–5 Sept 2026
University of Sussex
Europe/London timezone

Modified Forward Scattering and Unitarity in Matter Chern-–Simons Theory

1 Sept 2026, 14:20
20m
144 (Jubilee Building)

144

Jubilee Building

Speaker

Max Uetrecht (TU Dortmund University)

Description

Recently, the familiar $S$ matrix form $S=1+iT$ and crossing rules were challenged in Chern--Simons theories coupled to bosonic or fermionic matter. In the planar large-$N$ singlet channel, the proposed modifications restore unitarity by changing both the forward identity contribution and the crossing relation obeyed by the $T$ matrix. In this talk, we present a direct perturbative calculation of $2\to2$ matter scattering through order $1/k^2$ at finite $N$. We provide the first finite-$N$ perturbative verification of the conjectured forward contribution beyond the planar singlet channel, and show that it restores unitarity.

Affiliation TU Dortmund
Career status PhD student

Authors

Dr Emmanuel Stamou (TU Dortmund) Enrico Di Salvo (VUB Brussels) Lorenzo Di Pietro (University of Trieste) Max Uetrecht (TU Dortmund University)

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