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 twistor space, together with a recently introduced analytic continuation between and 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