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On-shell methods have found a new application to local observables such as asymptotic radiation fields and gravitational waveforms. While these observables are invariant under small gauge transformations, they are known to depend on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Asaad Elkhidir , Donal O'Connell , Radu Roiban

We analyze the infrared structure and memory effects of a massless vector tensor theory with non minimal curvature coupling in asymptotically flat spacetimes. Using Bondi Sachs expansions, we identify the independent radiative data and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-02 Pouneh Safarzadeh Ilkhchi , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , Shaoqi Hou

Since general relativity is a consistent low energy effective field theory, it is possible to compute quantum corrections to classical forces. Here we compute a quantum correction to the gravitational potential between a pair of polarizable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 L. H. Ford , Mark P. Hertzberg , J. Karouby

Gravitational waves are thought to propagate unattenuated through matter due to a cancellation between graviton absorption and stimulated emission inferred from leading-order soft-graviton arguments. We revisit this reasoning and show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-03 Wen-Yuan Ai , Sebastian A. R. Ellis , Josef Pradler

Superconductors will be considered as macroscopic quantum gravitational antennas and transducers, which can directly convert upon reflection a beam of quadrupolar electromagnetic radiation into gravitational radiation, and vice versa, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Raymond Y. Chiao

Null infinity in asymptotically flat spacetimes posses a rich mathematical structure; including the BMS group and the Bondi news tensor that allow one to study gravitational radiation rigorously. However, FLRW spacetimes are not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-17 Béatrice Bonga , Kartik Prabhu

The Lie algebra generated by supertranslation and superrotation vector fields at null infinity, known as the extended BMS (eBMS) algebra is expected to be a symmetry algebra of the quantum gravity S matrix. However, the algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

Classical soft graviton theorem gives the gravitational wave-form at future null infinity at late retarded time $u$ for a general classical scattering. The large $u$ expansion has three known universal terms: the constant term, the term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen

In the first paper in this series, a class of observables that generalized the gravitational wave memory effect were introduced and given the name "persistent gravitational wave observables." These observables are all nonlocal in time,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-21 Alexander M. Grant , David A. Nichols

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Based on the model of a "soft" cellular space and deterministic quantum mechanics developed previously, the scattering of a free moving particle by structural units of the space -- superparticles -- is studied herein. The process of energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkowskian expansion. We use the scattering-amplitudes-based…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Carlo Heissenberg , Julio Parra-Martinez

The existence or absence of gravitational radiation escaping from the spacetime at $\mathscr{J}$ is characterized in the presence of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ of any sign. To that end, the properties of the asymptotic super-momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Francisco Fernández-Álvarez , José M. M. Senovilla

We study the soft theorems for photons and gravitons at finite temperatures using the thermofield dynamics approach. The soft factors lose universality at finite temperatures as the soft amplitudes depend on the nature (or spin) of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-09 Divyesh N. Solanki , Srijit Bhattacharjee

General relativity offers a classical description to gravitation and spacetime, and is a cornerstone for modern physics. It has passed a number of empirical tests with flying colours, mostly in the weak-gravity regimes, but nowadays also in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-06 Lijing Shao

The similarity between the energy spectra of relativistic particles and that of quasi-particles in super-conductivity BCS theory makes us conjecture that the relativistic physical vacuum medium as the ground state of the background field is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Jin Wang

We introduce observables associated with the space-time position of a quantum point defined by the intersection of two light pulses. The time observable is canonically conjugated to the energy. Conformal symmetry of massless quantum fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

A certain vector-tensor (VT) theory of gravitation was tested in previous papers. In the background universe, the vector field of the theory has a certain energy density, which is appropriate to play the role of vacuum energy (cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-15 Roberto Dale , Màrius J. Fullana , Diego Sáez

Gravitational scattering events, in which the path of an interstellar object is deflected by a pulsar or the solar system, give rise to reflex motion which can potentially be detected using pulsar timing. We determine the form of the timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Ross J. Jennings , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee

The extension of the so-called "empty" (with gravity and antigravity that compensate each other in full or do not exist at all) universe and cosmological redshift in it are considered in this paper. Its flat space-time can be submitted not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonid S. Sitnikov