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The soft bootstrap program aims to construct consistent effective field theories (EFT’s) by recursively imposing the desired soft limit on tree-level scattering amplitudes through on-shell recursion relations. A prime example is the leading two-derivative opera tor in the EFT of SU(N) x SU(N)/SU(N) nonlinear sigma model (NLSM), where 𝒪(p2 ) amplitudes with an arbitrary multiplicity of external particles can be soft-bootstrapped. We extend the program to 𝒪(p4) operators and introduce the “soft blocks,” which are the seeds for soft bootstrap. The number of soft blocks coincides with the number of independent operators at a given order in the derivative expansion and the incalculable Wilson coefficient emerges naturally. We also uncover a new soft-constructible EFT involving the “multi-trace” operator at the leading two-derivative order, which is matched to SO(N + 1) /SO(N) NLSM. In addition, we consider Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) terms, the existence of which, or the lack thereof, depends on the number of flavors in the EFT, after a novel application of Bose symmetry. Remarkably, we find agreements with group theoretic considerations on the existence of WZW terms in SU(N) NLSM for N ≥ 3 and the absence of WZW terms in SO(N) NLSM for N ≠ 5.
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Low, I., Yin, Z. Soft bootstrap and effective field theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 78 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2019)078
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