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We comment on recent results of a possible finite theory of Super Gravity from both Feynman graph and global E(7,7) symmetry arguments. The four point amplitude can be written as a series in the gravitational coupling and energy squared,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-17 Ivan J. Muzinich

In this work we employ the MHV technique to show that scattering amplitudes with any number of consecutive soft particles behave universally in the multi-soft limit in which all particles go soft simultaneously. After identifying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 George Georgiou

In the gauge-theoretic formulation of gravity the cubic vertex becomes simple enough for some graviton scattering amplitudes to be computed using Berends-Giele-type recursion relations. We present such a computation for the current with all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-05 Gianluca Delfino , Kirill Krasnov , Carlos Scarinci

We develop a pure spinor worldline formalism for computing tree-level scattering amplitudes in 11D supergravity. Focusing first on the 4-point amplitude, we demonstrate that our prescription is consistent with BRST symmetry and gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Max Guillen , Marcelo dos Santos , Eggon Viana

The canonical ``loop'' formulation of quantum gravity is a mathematically well defined, background independent, non perturbative standard quantization of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. Some among the most meaningful results of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-12 R. De Pietri

An intriguing correspondence between ingredients in geometric function theory related to the famous Bieberbach conjecture (de Branges' theorem) and the non-perturbative crossing symmetric representation of 2-2 scattering amplitudes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-09 Parthiv Haldar , Aninda Sinha , Ahmadullah Zahed

We establish that unitarity of scattering amplitudes imposes universal entropy bounds. The maximal entropy of a self-sustained quantum field object of radius R is equal to its surface area and at the same time to the inverse running…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Gia Dvali

We perform a Feynman diagram calculation of the two-loop scattering amplitude for gravitationally interacting massive particles in the classical limit. Conveniently, we are able to sidestep the most taxing diagrams by exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Clifford Cheung , Mikhail P. Solon

We elaborate on the radiative behaviour of tree-level scattering amplitudes in the soft regime. We show that the sub-leading soft term in single-gluon emission of quark-gluon amplitudes in QCD is controlled by differential operators, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Hui Luo , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We study constraints from causality and unitarity on $2\to2$ graviton scattering in four-dimensional weakly-coupled effective field theories. Together, causality and unitarity imply dispersion relations that connect low-energy observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Simon Caron-Huot , Yue-Zhou Li , Julio Parra-Martinez , David Simmons-Duffin

It is shown that a certain sum rule for soft supersymmetry-breaking scalar masses, which has been recently found in a certain class of superstring models, is universal for gauge-Yukawa unified models. To explain this coincidence, we argue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Yoshiharu Kawamura , Tatsuo Kobayashi , Jisuke Kubo

We discuss the ultra-relativistic gravitational scattering of two massive particles at two-loop (3PM) level. We find that in this limit the real part of the eikonal, determining the deflection angle, is universal for gravitational theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo , Gabriele Veneziano

We compute the graviton-mediated two-to-two scattering amplitude and cross section for scalar particles in asymptotically safe quantum gravity. Specifically, we compute the full momentum dependence of the scalar-graviton three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-12 Angelo P. Chiesa , Jan M. Pawlowski , Manuel Reichert

In four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes, an infinite tower of soft graviton modes is known to generate the symmetry algebra of ${\rm w}_{1+\infty}$ at tree-level. Here we demonstrate that the symmetry action follows from soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Elizabeth Himwich , Monica Pate

We show that at tree level, on-shell gauge invariance can be used to fully determine the first subleading soft-gluon behavior and the first two subleading soft-graviton behaviors. Our proofs of the behaviors for n-gluon and n-graviton tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-11 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Paolo Di Vecchia , Josh Nohle

It is widely believed and in part established that exact global symmetries are inconsistent with quantum gravity. One then expects that approximate global symmetries can be quantitatively constrained by quantum gravity or swampland…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-22 Tristan Daus , Arthur Hebecker , Sascha Leonhardt , John March-Russell

The quantum field theoretic description of general relativity is a modern approach to gravity where gravitational force is carried by spin-2 gravitons. In the classical limit of this theory, general relativity as described by the Einstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-20 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

Starting from the amplitude with an arbitrary number of massless closed states of the bosonic string, we compute the soft limit when one of the states becomes soft to subsubleading order in the soft momentum expansion, and we show that when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

We derive a spacetime formulation of quantum general relativity from (hamiltonian) loop quantum gravity. In particular, we study the quantum propagator that evolves the 3-geometry in proper time. We show that the perturbation expansion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Michael P Reisenberger , Carlo Rovelli

We analyze causality and unitarity constraints in graviton scattering amplitudes, aiming to establish new bounds on theories with $U(1)$-gravitational anomalies, such as axion models or strongly-coupled gauge theories. For this purpose, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Zi-Yu Dong , Teng Ma , Alex Pomarol , Francesco Sciotti