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Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory

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Abstract

This is a redacted transcript of a course given by the author at Harvard in spring semester 2016. It contains a pedagogical overview of recent developments connecting the subjects of soft theorems, the memory effect and asymptotic symmetries in four-dimensional QED, nonabelian gauge theory and gravity with applications to black holes. The lectures may be viewed online at https://goo.gl/3DJdOr. Please send typos or corrections to [email protected].

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@article{arxiv.1703.05448,
  title  = {Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory},
  author = {Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.05448},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Revised version adds short section on IR divergences and corrects minor typos . To be published Princeon University Press