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Extending our previous results on trans-Planckian ($Gs \gg \hbar$) scattering of light particles in quantum string-gravity we present a calculation of the corresponding S-matrix from the region of large impact parameters ($b \gg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Amati , M. Ciafaloni , G. Veneziano

We argue that for finite energy windows, the final states in gravitational scattering in dimension $d > 4$ are normalizable coherent states in Fock space. However, as the center of the energy window goes to infinity, black hole physics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 T. Banks

The scattering transform is a multilayered, wavelet-based transform initially introduced as a model of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that has played a foundational role in our understanding of these networks' stability and invariance…

Particle production in integrable field theories may exist depending on the vacuum around which excitations are defined. To tackle this and analogous issues with conventional field theoretical tools, we consider the integrable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 George Georgiou , Konstantinos Sfetsos

$S$-matrix formulation of gravity excludes de Sitter vacua. In particular, this is organic to string theory. The $S$-matrix constraint is enforced by an anomalous quantum break-time proportional to the inverse values of gravitational and/or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-04 Gia Dvali

We use the Einstein-Hilbert gravitational path integral to investigate gravitational entanglement at leading order $O(1/G)$. We argue that semiclassical states prepared by a Euclidean path integral have the property that projecting them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Xi Dong , Daniel Harlow , Donald Marolf

The S-matrix Bootstrap originated on the idea that the S-matrix might be fully constrained by global symmetries, crossing, unitarity, and analyticity without relying on an underlying dynamical theory that may or may not be a quantum field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Martin Kruczenski , Joao Penedones , Balt C. van Rees

$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry is a unique platform for light manipulation and versatile use in unidirectional invisibility, lasing, sensing, etc. Broken and unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric states in non-Hermitian open systems are described by…

The scattering matrix which describes low-energy, non-relativistic scattering of spin-1/2 fermions interacting via finite-range potentials can be obtained from a geometric action principle in which space and time do not appear explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Silas R. Beane , Roland C. Farrell

We consider the time-harmonic scattering wave problem in a 2D waveguide at wavenumber $k$ such that one mode is propagating in the far field. In a first step, for a given $k$, playing with one scattering branch of finite length, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Lucas Chesnel , Vincent Pagneux

We investigate the hypothesized existence of an S-matrix for gravity, and some of its expected general properties. We first discuss basic questions regarding existence of such a matrix, including those of infrared divergences and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-02 Steven B. Giddings , Rafael A. Porto

We consider quantum walks on a finite graphs to which infinite tails are attached. We explore how the propagating and bound states depend on the structure of the finite graph. The S-matrix for such graphs is defined. Its unitarity is proved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Martin Varbanov , Todd A. Brun

The complete tree-level S-matrix of four dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills and ${\cal N} = 8$ supergravity has compact forms as integrals over the moduli space of certain rational maps. In this note we derive formulas for amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Freddy Cachazo , Song He , Ellis Ye Yuan

Starting from the semiclassical reduced-action approach to transplanckian scattering by Amati, Veneziano and one of us and from our previous quantum extension of that model, we investigate the S-matrix expression for inelastic processes by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-06 M. Ciafaloni , D. Colferai

The unitary S-matrix for the space-time non-commutative QED is constructed using the $\star$-time ordering which is needed in the presence of derivative interactions. Based on this S-matrix, perturbation theory is formulated and Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chaiho Rim , Jae Hyung Yee

We develop a geometric scattering theory for a geometrically finite group acting on (a vector bundle over) a symmetric space of negative curvature. In particular, we obtain the meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series and scattering…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Ulrich Bunke , Martin Olbrich

We develop a fundamental transfer-matrix formulation of the scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves that incorporates the contribution of the evanescent waves and applies to general stationary linear media which need not be isotropic,…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-01 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

In this work we study the scattering and transfer matrices for electric fields defined with respect to an angular spectrum of plane waves. For these matrices, we derive the constraints that are enforced by conservation of energy,…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-17 Niall Byrnes , Matthew R. Foreman

We study the interplay between crossing symmetry and entanglement in $2 \to 2$ scattering within local quantum field theories that possess an $SU(N)$ global symmetry. In particular, we recast scattering amplitudes of fixed helicity as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Navin McGinnis

A method to unitarize the scattering amplitude produced by infinite-range forces is developed and applied to Born terms. In order to apply $S$-matrix techniques, based on unitarity and analyticity, we first derive an $S$-matrix free of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-17 Diego Blas , Jorge Martin Camalich , Jose Antonio Oller