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Universality in the classical limit of massless gravitational scattering

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-07-22 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We demonstrate the universality of the gravitational classical deflection angle of massless particles through O(G^3) by studying the high-energy limit of full two-loop four-graviton scattering amplitudes in pure Einstein gravity as well as N >= 4 supergravity. As a by-product, our first-principles calculation provides a direct confirmation of the massless deflection angle in Einstein gravity proposed long ago by Amati, Ciafaloni and Veneziano, and is inconsistent with a recently proposed alternative.

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@article{arxiv.2002.02459,
  title  = {Universality in the classical limit of massless gravitational scattering},
  author = {Zvi Bern and Harald Ita and Julio Parra-Martinez and Michael S. Ruf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02459},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure