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The Breakdown of String Perturbation Theory for Many External Particles

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arxiv 1611.08003 v2 pith:35F4DGCR submitted 2016-11-23 hep-th gr-qc

The Breakdown of String Perturbation Theory for Many External Particles

classification hep-th gr-qc
keywords stringexternallimitparticlesperturbationtheoryamplitudesargue
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We consider massless string scattering amplitudes in a limit where the number of external particles becomes very large, while the energy of each particle remains small. Using the growth of the volume of the relevant moduli space, and by means of independent numerical evidence, we argue that string perturbation theory breaks down in this limit. We discuss some remarkable implications for the information paradox.

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