New Flavor-Kinematics Dualities and Extensions of Nonlinear Sigma Models

Abstract

Nonlinear sigma model (NLSM) based on the coset $\text{SU}(N)\times \text{SU}(N)/\text{SU}(N)$ exhibits several intriguing features at the leading ${\cal O}(p^2)$ in the derivative expansion, such as the flavor-kinematics duality and an extended theory controlling the single and triple soft limits. In both cases the cubic biadjoint scalar theory plays a prominent role. We extend these features in two directions. First we uncover a new extended theory for $\text{SO}(N+1)/\text{SO}(N)$ NLSM at ${\cal O}(p^2)$, which is a cubic bifundamental/biadjoint scalar theory. Next we provide evidence for flavor-kinematics dualities up to ${\cal O}(p^4)$ for both $\text{SU}(N)$ and $\text{SO}(N)$ NLSM's. In particular, we introduce a new duality building block based on the symmetric tensor $\delta^{ab}$ and demonstrate several flavor-kinematics dualities for 4-point amplitudes, which precisely match the soft blocks employed to soft-bootstrap the NLSM's up to ${\cal O} (p^4)$.