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We show that the distributional nature of soft theorems requires the soft limit expansion to take priority over the regulator expansion of Feynman loop integrals. We start the study of soft graviton theorems at loop level from this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-02 Freddy Cachazo , Ellis Ye Yuan

Soft theorems describe the behavior of scattering amplitudes when one or several external particles are taken to be energetically soft. In tree-level gravity there are universal soft theorems for the three leading orders in the soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Eivind Jørstad , Sruthi A. Narayanan

We construct, in the closed bosonic string, the multiloop amplitude involving $N$ tachyons and one massless particle with $26 -D$ compactified directions, and we show that at least for $D>4$, the soft behaviors of the graviton and dilaton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-18 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

We investigate relations between loop and tree amplitudes in quantum field theory that involve putting on-shell some loop propagators. This generalizes the so-called Feynman tree theorem which is satisfied at 1-loop. Exploiting retarded…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-23 Simon Caron-Huot

In this paper, we derive a soft theorem at leading and subleading orders within the context of BFSS matrix theory. Specifically, we consider the effective field theory describing interactions between bound states of D0-branes at leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Davide Laurenzano , John F. Wheater

In theories of Einstein gravity coupled with a dilaton and a two-form, a soft theorem for the two-form, known as the Kalb-Ramond B-field, has so far been missing. In this work we fill the gap, and in turn formulate a unified soft theorem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

Gauge theories and perturbative gravity in four dimensions are governed by a tower of infinite-dimensional symmetries which arise from tree-level soft theorems. However, aside from the leading soft theorems which are all-loop exact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Sangmin Choi , Alok Laddha , Andrea Puhm

Cachazo and Strominger recently proposed an extension of the soft-graviton theorem found by Weinberg. In addition, they proved the validity of their extension at tree level. This was motivated by a Virasoro symmetry of the gravity S-matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Zvi Bern , Scott Davies , Josh Nohle

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

This note study the soft behavior of Yang-Mills (YM) and bi-adjoint scalar (BAS) amplitudes at tree level, by using transmutation operators proposed by Cheung, Shen and Wen. By acting such transmutation operators to gravity amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-18 Fang-Stars Wei

Soft theorems for the form factors of 1/2-BPS and Konishi operator supermultiplets are derived at tree level in N=4 SYM theory. They have a form identical to the one in the amplitude case. For MHV sectors of stress tensor and Konishi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 L. V. Bork , A. I. Onishchenko

We study the behaviour of Yang-Mills and gravity amplitudes under the soft limit in the four-dimensional ambitwistor string formalism and derive their soft theorems to arbitrary order. For this purpose, we apply some mathematics. Methods of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-01 QiouShi Li

At tree-level, scattering amplitudes involving only gluons or gravitons are unaffected by supersymmetry, allowing them to be efficiently encoded by and extracted from those of maximally supersymmetric (N=4,8) theories. This fails beyond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Jacob L. Bourjaily

We show the universal soft behavior of massless particles at the tree level by considering the operator product expansion of the soft vertex operator with the hard vertex operators. We find that after eliminating total derivative terms the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Sho Higuchi , Hikaru Kawai

This chapter reviews the construction of ``soft-collinear gravity'', the effective field theory which describes the interaction of collinear and soft gravitons with matter (and themselves), to all orders in the soft-collinear power…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-20 Martin Beneke , Patrick Hager , Robert Szafron

In this letter we show that the soft behaviour of photons and graviton amplitudes, after projection, can be determined to infinite order in soft expansion via ordinary on-shell gauge invariance. In particular, as one of the particle's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Zhi-Zhong Li , Hung-Hwa Lin , Shun-Qing Zhang

It is shown that softly broken theory is equivalent to a rigid theory in external spurion superfield. The singular part of effective action in a broken theory follows from a rigid one by a simple redefinition of the couplings. This gives an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Kazakov

We demonstrate that the tree level amplitudes and the explicit formulas of soft factors can be uniquely determined by soft theorems and the universality of soft factors. By imposing the soft theorems and the universality, as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

In \cite{1808.03288}, logarithmic correction to subleading soft photon and soft graviton theorems have been derived in four spacetime dimensions from the ratio of IR-finite S-matrices. This has been achieved after factoring out IR-divergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Hare Krishna , Biswajit Sahoo

We show that in supersymmetric theories, knowing the soft theorem for a single particle in a supermultiplet allows one to immediately determine soft theorems for the remainder of the supermultiplet. While soft theorems in supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Adam Tropper