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Log translation invariance of log soft gravitational radiation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-08-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The gravitational radiation emitted during a classical scattering process is known to exhibit two universal logarithmic terms in its soft frequency expansion. We show that these terms can be written in a way that makes the action of \emph{logarithmic translations} manifest. Invariance under log translations naturally explains a puzzling cancellation in the contribution from outgoing massless particles and leads to a recurrence relation for expected higher-order universal log soft terms.

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@article{arxiv.2508.17919,
  title  = {Log translation invariance of log soft gravitational radiation},
  author = {Gianni Boschetti and Miguel Campiglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17919},
  year   = {2025}
}

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