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Note on asymptotic symmetries and soft gluon theorems

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-12 v3

Abstract

Recently, the leading soft gluon theorem with single soft emission was shown to be the Ward identity of a two dimensional G\cal G-Kac-Moody symmetry. In this note, we show that the leading soft gluon theorem can be interpreted as the Ward identity for the asymptotic symmetries of non-Abelian gauge theory. We further argue that the sub-leading soft gluon theorem can follow from the same symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1704.05740,
  title  = {Note on asymptotic symmetries and soft gluon theorems},
  author = {Pujian Mao and Jun-Bao Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.05740},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v3: minor corrections, published version