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Asymptotic symmetries of theories with gravity in d=2m+2 spacetime dimensions are reconsidered for m>1 in light of recent results concerning d=4 BMS symmetries. Weinberg's soft graviton theorem in 2m+2 dimensions is re-expressed as a Ward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Daniel Kapec , Vyacheslav Lysov , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger

We derive new positivity bounds for scattering amplitudes in theories with a massless graviton in the spectrum in four spacetime dimensions, of relevance for the weak gravity conjecture and modified gravity theories. The bounds imply that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-25 Brando Bellazzini , Matthew Lewandowski , Javi Serra

We study all translationally and rotationally invariant local theories involving massless spin 2 and spin 1 particles that mediate long range forces, allowing for general energy relations and violation of boost invariance. Although gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Mark P. Hertzberg , McCullen Sandora

We compute leading soft theorem for multiple gravitinos (and graviton) in an arbitrary theory of supergravity with an arbitrary number of finite energy particles with arbitrary mass and arbitrary spin by extending Sen's approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Diksha Jain , Arnab Rudra

In this note, we prove that the recent proposal for the tree-level n-particle N=8 supergravity amplitudes by Cachazo and Geyer satisfies parity symmetry and soft limit behavior expected for graviton scattering amplitudes.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-28 Brenda Penante , Sayeh Rajabi , Grigory Sizov

Scattering amplitudes connect theoretical descriptions to experimental predictions. Low energy terms of the scattering amplitude tend to factorize from the high energy. Different methods have already been established to understand the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-09 F. A. Andriantsarafara , A. N. Rasoanaivo

We study the soft graviton theorem recently proposed by Cachazo and Strominger. We employ the Cachazo, He and Yuan formalism to show that the next to subleading order soft factor for gravity is universal at tree level in arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Chrysostomos Kalousios , Francisco Rojas

We extend our investigation of soft graviton effects on the microscopic dynamics of matter fields in de Sitter space. We evaluate the quantum equation of motion in generic gauge theories. We find that the Lorentz invariance can be respected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-14 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

Graviton and gluon scattering are studied from minimal physical assumptions such as Poincare and gauge symmetry as well as unitarity. The assumptions lead to an interesting and surprisingly restrictive set of linear equations. This shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-15 Rutger H. Boels , Ricardo Medina

We analyze the low-energy behavior of scattering amplitudes involving gravitons at loop level in four dimensions. The single-graviton soft limit is controlled by soft operators which have been argued to separate into a factorized piece and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Johannes Broedel , Marius de Leeuw , Jan Plefka , Matteo Rosso

Recently, it has been shown that the Weinberg's formula for soft graviton production is essentially a Fourier transformation of the formula for gravitational memory which provides an effective way to understand how the classical calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Pujian Mao , Hao Ouyang

Recently, new soft graviton theorem proposed by Cachazo and Strominger has inspired a lot of works. In this note, we use the KLT-formula to investigate the theorem. We have shown how the soft behavior of color ordered Yang-Mills amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yi-Jian Du , Bo Feng , Chih-Hao Fu , Yihong Wang

We use insights from superstring field theory to prove the subleading soft graviton theorem for tree amplitudes of (compactified) heterotic and type II string theories for arbitrary number of finite energy NS (NSNS) sector external states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Ashoke Sen

A framework of connections between asymptotic symmetries, soft theorems, and memory effects has recently shed light on a universal structure associated with infrared physics. Here, we show how this pattern has been used to fill in missing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-24 Sabrina Pasterski

Arkani-Hamed et. al. have recently shown that all tree-level scattering amplitudes in maximal supergravity exhibit exceptionally soft behavior when two supermomenta are taken to infinity in a particular complex direction, and that this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen

We consider and derive the gravitational soft theorem up to the sub-subleading power from the perspective of effective Lagrangians. The emergent soft gauge symmetries of the effective Lagrangian provide a transparent explanation of why soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-14 Martin Beneke , Patrick Hager , Robert Szafron

The tree-level scattering amplitudes of general relativity encode the full non-linearity of the Einstein field equations. Yet remarkably compact expressions for these amplitudes have been found which seem unrelated to a perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Tim Adamo

The description of low-energy (``soft") gravitons using universal theorems continues to attract attention. In this paper, we consider the emission of two soft gravitons, using a previously developed formalism that describes (next-to) soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Karan Fernandes , Feng-Li Lin , Chris D. White

We employ the curvature expansion of the quantum effective action for gravity-matter systems to construct graviton-mediated scattering amplitudes for non-minimally coupled scalar fields in a Minkowski background. By design, the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Tom Draper , Benjamin Knorr , Chris Ripken , Frank Saueressig

Weak gravity conjecture can be formulated as a statement that gravity must be the weakest force, compared to the other interactions in low energy effective field theory (EFT). Several arguments in favor of this statement were presented from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-25 Anna Tokareva , Yongjun Xu