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Reconstructing Classical Spacetimes from the S-Matrix in Twistor Space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-12-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present a holographic construction of solutions to the gravitational wave equation starting from QFT scattering amplitudes. The construction amounts to a change of basis from momentum to (2,2)(2,2) twistor space, together with a recently introduced analytic continuation between (2,2)(2,2) and (1,3)(1,3) spacetimes. We test the transform for three and four-point amplitudes in a classical limit, recovering both stationary and dynamical solutions in GR as parametrized by their tower of multipole moments, including the Kerr black hole. As a corollary, this provides a link between the Kerr-Schild classical double copy and the QFT double copy.

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@article{arxiv.2112.05111,
  title  = {Reconstructing Classical Spacetimes from the S-Matrix in Twistor Space},
  author = {Alfredo Guevara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.05111},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages + 4 appendices

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