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The Classical Gravitational Impulse at High Energies

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We compute the gravitational impulse for two classical massive scalars in the ultrarelativistic limit to all orders in Newton's constant GNG_N at fixed GNs/mbG_N s/m b to O(m4/s2)O(m^4/s^2). By computing the 4 and 5-point scattering amplitudes in the small-mass regime of tm2-t\sim m^2, we are able to resum all large GNsG_N s corrections. Applying the KMOC formula for the impulse and taking the large mass limit, we recover the classical result at high energies. This resummation is in complete agreement with known results in the post-Minkowski expansion, and in the massless limit we recover previous results for the radiated energy. We use this resummed amplitude to predict the leading high-energy behavior of the PM expansion to eleventh post-Minkowski order.

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@article{arxiv.2605.18544,
  title  = {The Classical Gravitational Impulse at High Energies},
  author = {Michael Saavedra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18544},
  year   = {2026}
}

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11 page, 3 figures

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