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The Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric from scattering amplitudes in various dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive the static Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric by extracting the classical contributions from the multi-loop vertex functions of a graviton emitted from a massive scalar field. At each loop orders the classical contribution is proportional to a unique master integral given by the massless sunset integral. By computing the scattering amplitudes up to three-loop order in general dimension, we explicitly derive the expansion of the metric up to the fourth post-Minkowskian order O(GN4)O(G_N^4) in four, five and six dimensions. There are ultraviolet divergences that are cancelled with the introduction of higher-derivative non-minimal couplings. The standard Schwarzschild-Tangherlini is recovered by absorbing their effects by an appropriate coordinate transformation induced from the de Donder gauge condition.

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@article{arxiv.2010.08882,
  title  = {The Schwarzschild-Tangherlini metric from scattering amplitudes in various dimensions},
  author = {Stavros Mougiakakos and Pierre Vanhove},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08882},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

latex. 44 pages. v2 : several minor corrections. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D