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We consider soft graviton scattering for a theory where Einstein's gravity is minimally coupled to a scalar field in the presence of a cosmological constant, i.e. in a background de Sitter space. Employing a perturbative expansion in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Divyesh N. Solanki , Pratik Chattopadhyay , Srijit Bhattacharjee

The existing equivalence between (generalized) BMS Ward identities with leading and subleading soft graviton theorems is extended to the case where the scattering particles are massive scalars. By extending the action of generalized BMS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

Electromagnetism contains an infinite dimensional symmetry group of large gauge transformations. This gives rise to an infinite number of conserved quantities called "soft charges" via Noether's theorem. When charged particles scatter, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-13 Noah Miller

We present generalized adiabatic theorems for closed and open quantum systems that can be applied to slow modulations of rapidly varying fields, such as oscillatory fields that occur in optical experiments and light induced processes. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Amro Dodin , Paul Brumer

A deep connection has been recently established between soft theorems and symmetries at null infinity in gravity and gauge theories, recasting the former as Ward identities of the latter. In particular, different orders (in the frequency of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-11 Eduardo Conde , Pujian Mao

We derive soft theorems for single-clock cosmologies that enjoy a shift symmetry. These so-called consistency conditions arise from a combination of a large diffeomorphism and the internal shift-symmetry and fix the squeezed limit of all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-20 Bernardo Finelli , Garrett Goon , Enrico Pajer , Luca Santoni

We study the relation between emergent 1-form symmetries and soft photon theorems in QED. We show that in the relevant massive and massless kinematic regimes, described respectively by HQET and SCET, the soft sector admits electric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-08 Luigi Tizzano

After motivating the relevance of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group over the last decades, we review how concepts such as Penrose diagrams and the covariant phase space formalism can be used to understand the asymptotic structure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Xavier Kervyn

A central feature of scattering amplitudes in gravity or gauge theory is the existence of a variety of energetically soft theorems which put constraints on the amplitudes. Celestial amplitudes which are obtained from momentum-space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Andrea Puhm

BFSS proposed that asymptotically flat M-theory is dual to a large $N$ limit of the matrix quantum mechanics describing $N$ nonrelativistic D0-branes. Recent insights on the soft symmetries of any quantum theory of gravity in asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-01 Noah Miller , Andrew Strominger , Adam Tropper , Tianli Wang

We show that large gauge transformations in asymptotically flat spacetime can be implemented by sandwiching a shell containing the ingoing hard particles between two finite-width shells of soft gauge excitations. Integration of the graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Raphael Bousso , Massimo Porrati

Boundaries in gauge theory and gravity give rise to symmetries and charges at both finite and asymptotic distance. Due to their structural similarities, it is often held that soft modes are some kind of asymptotic limit of edge modes. Here,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-29 Goncalo Araujo-Regado , Philipp A. Hoehn , Francesco Sartini , Bilyana Tomova

Cosmological soft theorems (or consistency relations) provide a powerful probe for the physics of inflation. These relations rely on minimal assumptions and hold very generally. Consequently, any violation of these relations would rule out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Farman Ullah

We study asymptotic charges associated to a spin-zero analogue of Weinberg's soft photon and graviton theorems in even dimensions. Simple spacetime expressions for the charges are given, but unlike gravity or electrodynamics, the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Miguel Campiglia , Leonardo Coito

Gravitational memory, which describes the permanent shift in the strain after the passage of gravitational waves, is directly related to Weinberg's soft graviton theorems and the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry group of asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury , Sam S. C. Wong

Several misprints and small mistakes were in the initial version. They have been corrected. Following the recent experimental realization of synthetic gauge magnetic forces, Jean Dalibard adressed the question whether the adiabatic ansatz…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-24 Amandine Aftalion , Francis Nier

In this paper, we derive a soft photon theorem and a soft gluon theorem in the de Sitter spacetime from the Ward identity of the near cosmological horizon large gauge transformation. Taking the flat limit of the de Sitter spacetime, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Pujian Mao , Kai-Yu Zhang

An infinite number of physically nontrivial symmetries are found for abelian gauge theories with massless charged particles. They are generated by large $U(1)$ gauge transformations that asymptotically approach an arbitrary function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-10 Temple He , Prahar Mitra , Achilleas P. Porfyriadis , Andrew Strominger

Adiabatic processes in the quantum Ising model and the anisotropic Heisenberg model are discussed. The adiabatic processes are assumed to consist in the slow variation of the strength of the magnetic field that environs the spin-systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Murg , J. I. Cirac

The Landauer-Buettiker theory of mesoscopic conductors was recently extended to nanoelectromechanical systems. In this extension, the adiabatic reaction forces exerted by the electronic degrees of freedom on the mechanical modes were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Mark Thomas , Torsten Karzig , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Gergely Zarand , Felix von Oppen