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Newtonian potential from scattering amplitudes in super-renormalizable gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-02-11 v3

Abstract

Based on the classical limit of relativistic scattering amplitudes, we compute the coupling between a general super-renormalizable gravity and massive scalar particles. This allows us to derive the DD-dimensional metric corrections at both tree-level and one-loop level-the latter containing the first calculation by using newly derived three-graviton Feynman rules. By introducing Newtonian potential function Φh002\Phi\equiv\frac{h_{00}}{2}, we reproduce at tree level, O(G)\mathcal{O}(G), the well-known result proportional to the error function in four-dimensional spacetime. Furthermore, we obtain the loop-level contributions to the potential function at order O(G2)\mathcal{O}(G^2) and perform a numerical analysis of its behavior at large distances. Our results indicate that, at the one-loop level, the magnitude of the potential increases gradually with distance in the asymptotic regime.

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@article{arxiv.2510.10270,
  title  = {Newtonian potential from scattering amplitudes in super-renormalizable gravity},
  author = {Haiyuan Feng and Rong-Jia Yang and Jinjun Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.10270},
  year   = {2026}
}

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30 pages, 4 figures