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 at fixed to . By computing the 4 and 5-point scattering amplitudes in the small-mass regime of , we are able to resum all large 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.18544,
title = {The Classical Gravitational Impulse at High Energies},
author = {Michael Saavedra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.18544},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
11 page, 3 figures