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The Equivalence Principle at High Energies Completes the Spectrum

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We prove a version of the completeness hypothesis that follows from the coexistence of symmetry and gravity: tree-level gravitational scattering mandates single-particle states in all possible irreducible representations of the symmetry group constructible from a single seed charge. Our main assumption is that the leading high-energy behavior of scattering is universal irrespective of charge, thus satisfying the equivalence principle. Curiously, we discover that these newly-deduced states contribute democratically - that is, with equal interaction strengths - to scattering.

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@article{arxiv.2605.20319,
  title  = {The Equivalence Principle at High Energies Completes the Spectrum},
  author = {Francesco Calisto and Clifford Cheung and Grant N. Remmen and Francesco Sciotti and Michele Tarquini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.20319},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure