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