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