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Coherent states, background fields, and double copy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-02 v2

Abstract

We show that scattering amplitudes on any gauge theory background admitting a coherent state description double copy to amplitudes in a curved spacetime. The metric of the spacetime is built from the gauge background using a notion of classical double copy which emerges naturally at the amplitude level. In the self-dual sector this map relates backgrounds which are exact vacuum solutions in gauge theory and gravity.

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@article{arxiv.2505.16852,
  title  = {Coherent states, background fields, and double copy},
  author = {Anton Ilderton and William Lindved},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16852},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages

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