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Semiclassical Virasoro Symmetry of the Quantum Gravity S-Matrix

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-11-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is shown that the tree-level S-matrix for quantum gravity in four-dimensional Minkowski space has a Virasoro symmetry which acts on the conformal sphere at null infinity.

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@article{arxiv.1406.3312,
  title  = {Semiclassical Virasoro Symmetry of the Quantum Gravity S-Matrix},
  author = {Daniel Kapec and Vyacheslav Lysov and Sabrina Pasterski and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3312},
  year   = {2017}
}

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22 pages, 1 figure