Newtonian potential from scattering amplitudes in super-renormalizable gravity
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 -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 , we reproduce at tree level, , 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 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