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A Holographic Model for Soft Photons and Gravitons in Four Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct a two-dimensional action on the celestial sphere that describes the infrared sector of Abelian gauge and gravitational theories in four dimensions. In particular, we use the holographic model to reproduce (1) antipodal matching conditions for the superphaserotation and supertranslation Goldstone modes in four dimensions, (2) leading soft photon and graviton theorems, and (3) infrared factorization of amplitudes with generic dressed inin and outout states. Using (3), we reproduce the infrared divergences that plague the standard undressed amplitudes, and show that amplitudes involving Faddeev-Kulish dressed states are infrared finite. As a corollary, we use our holographic model to construct an infinite class of dressed states that give rise to infrared finite scattering amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2603.14499,
  title  = {A Holographic Model for Soft Photons and Gravitons in Four Dimensions},
  author = {Sangmin Choi and Prahar Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.14499},
  year   = {2026}
}

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28 pages, 1 figure