Review on High energy String Scattering Amplitudes and Symmetries of String Theory

Abstract: We review high energy symmetries of string theory at both the fixed angle or Gross regime (GR) and the fixed momentum transfer or Regge regime (RR). We calculated in details high energy string scattering amplitudes at arbitrary mass levels for both regimes. We discovered infinite linear relations among fixed angle string amplitudes conjectured by Gross in 1988 from decoupling of high energy zero-norm states (ZNS), and infinite recurrence relations among Regge string amplitudes from Kummer function U and Appell function F_1. However, the linear relations we obtained in the GR corrected [27-32] the saddle point calculations of Gross, Gross and Mende and Gross and Manes [1-5]. Our results were consistent with the decoupling of high energy ZNS or unitarity of the theory while those of them were not. In addition, for the case of high energy closed string scatterings, our results [36] differ from theirs by an oscillating prefactor which was crucial to recover the KLT relation valid for all energies. In the GR/RR regime, all high energy string amplitudes can be solved by these linear/recurrence relations so that all GR/RR string amplitudes can be expressed in terms of one single GR/RR string amplitude. In addition, we found an interesting link between string amplitudes of the two regimes, and discovered that at each mass level the ratios among fixed angle amplitudes can be extracted from Regge string scattering amplitudes. This result enables us to argue that the known SL(5,C) dynamical symmetry of the Appell function F_1 is crucial to probe high energy spacetime symmetry of string theory.