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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

Asymptotic particle states in four-dimensional celestial scattering amplitudes are labelled by their $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ Lorentz/conformal weights $(h,\bar{h})$ rather than the usual energy-momentum four-vector. These boost eigenstates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

There has been a renewed interest in the description of dressed asymptotic states a la Faddeev-Kulish. In this regard, a worldline representation for asymptotic states dressed by radiation at subleading power in the soft expansion, known as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Domenico Bonocore

Off-shell Ward identities in non-abelian gauge theory continue to be a subject of active research, since they are, in general, inhomogeneous and their form depends on the chosen gauge-fixing procedure. For the three-gluon and four-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Naser Ahmadiniaz , Christian Schubert

The soft photon and soft graviton theorems of Weinberg are known to derive from conservation laws associated with asymptotic symmetries. Within the corresponding classical theories, one often speaks of spontaneous symmetry breaking and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Shreyansh Agrawal , Kevin Nguyen

Using the covariant phase space formalism, we construct the phase space for non-Abelian gauge theories in $(d+2)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime for any $d \geq 2$, including the edge modes that symplectically pair to the low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-05 Temple He , Prahar Mitra

We describe a theory living on the null conformal boundary of four-dimensional Minkowski space, whose states include the radiative modes of Yang-Mills theory. The action of a Kac-Moody symmetry algebra on the correlators of these states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Tim Adamo , Eduardo Casali

Asymptotic symmetries of gauge theories are known to encode infrared properties of radiative fields. In the context of tree-level Yang-Mills theory, the leading soft behavior of gluons is captured by large gauge symmetries with parameters…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Miguel Campiglia , Javier Peraza

Strominger and collaborators recently proposed that soft theorems for gauge and gravity amplitudes can be interpreted as Ward identities of a 2d CFT at null infinity. In this paper, we will consider a specific realization of this CFT known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-01 Arthur E. Lipstein

In recent years soft factorization theorems in scattering amplitudes have been reinterpreted as conservation laws of asymptotic charges. In gauge, gravity, and higher spin theories the asymptotic charges can be understood as canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 Miguel Campiglia , Laurent Freidel , Florian Hopfmüller , Ronak M Soni

We consider and derive the gravitational soft theorem up to the sub-subleading power from the perspective of effective Lagrangians. The emergent soft gauge symmetries of the effective Lagrangian provide a transparent explanation of why soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-14 Martin Beneke , Patrick Hager , Robert Szafron

An interesting question is to characterize the general class of allowed boundary conditions for gauge theories, including gravity, at spatial and null infinity. This has played a role in discussions of soft charges, where antipodal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Steven B. Giddings

We establish the existence of an infinite-dimensional fermionic symmetry in four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories by analyzing semiclassical photino dynamics in abelian ${\cal N}=1$ theories with charged matter. The symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-28 Thomas T. Dumitrescu , Temple He , Prahar Mitra , Andrew Strominger

In a previous article, we have argued that Low's sub-leading soft photon theorem can be recovered as a Ward identity associated to the same large gauge transformations that control the leading piece of the theorem. The key for that was to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-12 Eduardo Conde , Pujian Mao

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

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

The soft emission factor is a central ingredient in the factorization of generic $n$-particle gauge theory amplitudes with one soft gluon in the external state. We present the complete two-loop soft factor, capturing the leading power…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Lance J. Dixon , Enrico Herrmann , Kai Yan , Hua Xing Zhu

We propose a few tests of Seiberg-Witten solutions of $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories by the instanton calculus in twisted gauge theories. We re-examine the low-energy effective abelian theory in the presence of sources and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Andrei Losev , Nikita Nekrasov , Samson Shatashvili

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

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