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Perturbatively Exact $w_{1+\infty}$ Asymptotic Symmetry of Quantum Self-Dual Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-11-23 v1

Abstract

The infinite tower of positive-helicity soft gravitons in any minimally coupled, tree-level, asymptotically flat four-dimensional (4D) gravity was recently shown to generate a w1+w_{1+\infty} asymptotic symmetry algebra. It is natural to ask whether this classical algebra acquires quantum corrections at loop level. We explore this in quantum self-dual gravity, whose amplitudes acquire known one-loop exact all-plus helicity quantum corrections. We show using collinear splitting formulae that, remarkably, the w1+w_{1+\infty} algebra persists in quantum self-dual gravity without corrections.

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@article{arxiv.2111.10392,
  title  = {Perturbatively Exact $w_{1+\infty}$ Asymptotic Symmetry of Quantum Self-Dual Gravity},
  author = {Adam Ball and Sruthi Narayanan and Jakob Salzer and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.10392},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages