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Soft theorems in de Sitter spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-01-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we derive a soft photon theorem and a soft gluon theorem in the de Sitter spacetime from the Ward identity of the near cosmological horizon large gauge transformation. Taking the flat limit of the de Sitter spacetime, the soft theorems naturally recover the corresponding flat spacetime soft theorems.

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@article{arxiv.2308.08861,
  title  = {Soft theorems in de Sitter spacetime},
  author = {Pujian Mao and Kai-Yu Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08861},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

minor revision with clarification of the horizon antipodal matching, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T11:57:47.187Z