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Bros, Epstein and Glaser proved crossing symmetry of the S-matrix of a theory without massless fields by using certain analyticity properties of the off-shell momentum space Green’s function in the complex momentum plane. The latter properties follow from representing the momentum space Green’s function as Fourier transform of the position space Green’s function, satisfying certain properties implied by the underlying local quantum field theory. We prove the same analyticity properties of the momentum space Green’s functions in superstring field theory by directly working with the momentum space Feynman rules even though the corresponding properties of the position space Green’s function are not known. Our result is valid to all orders in perturbation theory, but requires, as usual, explicitly subtracting / regulating the non-analyticities associated with massless particles. These results can also be used to prove other general analyticity properties of the S-matrix of superstring theory.
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de Lacroix, C., Erbin, H. & Sen, A. Analyticity and crossing symmetry of superstring loop amplitudes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 139 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2019)139
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