Spinning Partial Waves for Scattering Amplitudes in $d$ Dimensions

Abstract

Partial wave decomposition is one of the main tools within the modern S-matrix studies. We present a method to compute partial waves for $2\to 2$ scattering of spinning particles in arbitrary spacetime dimension. We identify partial waves as matrix elements of the rotation group with definite covariance properties under a subgroup. This allows to use a variety of techniques from harmonic analysis in order to construct a novel algebra of weight-shifting operators. All spinning partial waves are generated by the action of these operators on a set of known scalar seeds. The text is accompanied by a {\it Mathematica} notebook to automatically generate partial waves. These results pave the way to a systematic studies of spinning S-matrix bootstrap and positivity bounds.

Comments: v2: minor edits, version published on JHEP