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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

Soft theorems can be recast as Ward identities of asymptotic symmetries. We review such relation for the leading and subleading soft graviton theorems in arbitrary even dimensions. While soft theorems are trivially generalized to dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Stefano Lionetti

The CHY formula which describes an $n$-point tree level scattering amplitude for scalars, gluons or gravitons in arbitrary dimension [22], is used to prove the sub-sub-leading soft- graviton theorem recently proposed by Cachazo and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-30 Michael Zlotnikov

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 revisit the status of asymptotic symmetries in higher even dimensions and propose a definition of superrotation charge beyond linearized gravity. We prove that there is a well-defined spacetime action of the superrotation charge on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Anupam A. H. , Arpan Kundu

Extensions of the photon and graviton soft theorems are derived in 4d local effective field theories with massless particles of arbitrary spin. We prove that effective operators can result in new terms in the soft theorems at subleading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 Henriette Elvang , Callum R. T. Jones , Stephen G. Naculich

The recent introduction of a boundary stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetimes enabled a new construction of energy, momentum, and Lorentz charges. These charges are known to generate the asymptotic symmetries of the theory, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert B. Mann , Donald Marolf , Robert McNees , Amitabh Virmani

Soft theorems in gauge theory and gravity encode the universal properties of scattering amplitudes as the zero frequency limit of one or more external states is approached. When the participating particles are treated in the massless limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-15 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

We study the tree-level scattering of massless scalars followed by an emission of a soft graviton in the small compact region inside the static patch in de Sitter space. We derive in the small cosmological constant limit the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Pratik Chattopadhyay , Divyesh N. Solanki

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

In this note we show that the recent conjecture proposed by Cachazo and Strominger holds at tree level in arbitrary dimensions. The proof makes crucial use of the fact that the sub-leading operator is defined using the total angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-15 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Soft factorization has been shown to hold to sub-leading order in QED and to sub-sub-leading order in perturbative quantum gravity, with various loop and non-universal corrections that can be found. Here we show that all terms factorizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-06 Colby DeLisle , Jordan Wilson-Gerow , Philip Stamp

Hypertranslations and hyperrotations are asymptotic symmetries of flat space, on top of the familiar supertranslations and superrotations. They were discovered in arXiv:2205.01422 by working in the Special Double Null (SDN) gauge, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-12 Chethan Krishnan , Jude Pereira

We show that there exists an infinite tower of fermionic symmetries in pure $d=4$, $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity on an asymptotically flat background. The Ward identities associated with these symmetries are equivalent to the soft limit of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Steven G. Avery , Burkhard U. W. Schwab

In this paper, we study loop corrections to the recently proposed new soft theorem of Cachazo-Strominger, for both gravity and gauge theory amplitudes. We first review the proof of its tree-level validity based on BCFW recursion relations,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

In this paper we study the supersymmetric generalization of the new soft theorem which was proposed by Cachazo and Strominger recently. At tree level, we prove the validity of the super soft theorems in both ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-10 Zheng-Wen Liu

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

We use the subleading soft-graviton theorem to construct an operator $T_{zz}$ whose insertion in the four-dimensional tree-level quantum gravity $\mathcal{S}$-matrix obeys the Virasoro-Ward identities of the energy momentum tensor of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Daniel Kapec , Prahar Mitra , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

In this note, I show that the recently proposed subleading soft factor in massless gauge theory uniquely follows from conformal symmetry of tree-level gauge theory amplitudes in four dimensions.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-08 Andrew J. Larkoski

The single-soft-graviton limit of any quantum gravity scattering amplitude is given at leading order by the universal Weinberg pole formula. Gauge invariance of the formula follows from global energy-momentum conservation. In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Freddy Cachazo , Andrew Strominger