Topological Equivalence Theorem and Double-Copy for Chern-Simons Scattering Amplitudes.

ABSTRACT

We study the mechanism of topological mass generation for 3-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theories and propose a brand-new topological equivalence theorem to connect scattering amplitudes of the physical gauge boson states to that of the transverse states under high-energy expansion. We prove a general energy cancelation mechanism for N-point physical gauge boson amplitudes, which predicts large cancelations of E4 - L → E(4 - L) - N at any L-loop level (L ⩾ 0). We extend the double-copy approach to construct massive graviton amplitudes and to study their structures. We newly uncovered a series of strikingly large energy cancelations E12 → E1 of the tree-level 4-graviton scattering amplitude under high-energy expansion and establish a new correspondence between the 2 energy cancelations in the topologically massive Yang-Mills gauge theory and the topologically massive gravity theory. We further study the scattering amplitudes of Chern-Simons gauge bosons and gravitons in the nonrelativistic limit.