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Soft Photon theorem in the small negative cosmological constant limit

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-09-15 v3

Abstract

We study the effect of electromagnetic interactions on the classical soft theorems on an asymptotically AdS background in 4 spacetime dimensions, in the limit of a small cosmological constant or equivalently a large AdS radius ll. This identifies 1/l21/l^2 perturbative corrections to the known asymptotically flat spacetime leading and subleading soft factors. Our analysis is only valid to leading order in 1/l21/l^2. The leading soft factor can be expected to be universal and holds beyond tree level. This allows us to derive a 1/l21/l^2 corrected Ward identity, following the known equivalence between large gauge Ward identities and soft theorems in asymptotically flat spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.2102.06165,
  title  = {Soft Photon theorem in the small negative cosmological constant limit},
  author = {Nabamita Banerjee and Karan Fernandes and Arpita Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.06165},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

41 pages, some parts of the draft (Introduction, Section 6, Conclusion) are revised, 1 figure and 2 new equations are included

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