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Infrared photons and asymptotic symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-13 v2

Abstract

S-matrix elements exhibit universal factorization when multiple infrared photons are emitted in scattering processes. We explicitly show that the leading soft factorization of tree-level amplitudes with the emission of any number of soft photons can be interpreted as the Ward identity of the asymptotic symmetry of gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.2107.03240,
  title  = {Infrared photons and asymptotic symmetries},
  author = {Zhengwen Liu and Pujian Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03240},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, v2: minor revision with several issues clarified and comments added, typo corrected