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Infinities within graviton scattering amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We present unitarity as a method for determining the infinities present in graviton scattering amplitudes. The infinities are a combination of IR and UV. By understanding the soft singularities we may extract the UV infinities and relate these to counter-terms in the effective action. As an demonstration of this method we rederive the UV infinities present at one-loop when gravity is coupled to matter.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9512084,
  title  = {Infinities within graviton scattering amplitudes},
  author = {D. C. Dunbar and P. S. Norridge},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9512084},
  year   = {2009}
}

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