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The Kerr-Schild double copy relates exact solutions of gauge and gravity theories. In all previous examples, the gravity solution is associated with an abelian-like gauge theory object, which linearises the Yang-Mills equations. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Luigi Alfonsi , Chris D. White , Sam Wikeley

This thesis applies the Kerr-Schild and the Weyl double copy formalisms to study various concepts in the physics literature. First we apply both the Kerr-Schild and the Weyl double copy to solution generating transformations in General…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Rashid Alawadhi

The Weyl double copy formalism, which relates the Weyl spinor with the square of the field strength, is studied in the context of Hassan-Rosen bigravity for stationary and time-dependent solutions. We consider the dyonic Kerr-Newman-(A)dS…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Hugo García-Compeán , César I. Ramos

We study the classical double copy of massive spinning objects in the worldline quantum field theories (WQFT) formalism. We couple the $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric model to a Yang-Mills background to describe the propagation of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Francesco Comberiati , Canxin Shi

Recently, an intriguing relationship (the "double copy") has been discovered between theories like electromagnetism, and gravity. This potentially gives us a new way to think about gravity, and there are also practical applications…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-03 Chris D. White

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories, and has also been extended to classical solutions. In this paper, we study solutions in three spacetime dimensions, where the double copy may be expected to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Mariana Carrillo González , Brandon Melcher , Kenneth Ratliff , Scott Watson , Chris D. White

The Weyl double copy (WDC) relation connects the Weyl tensor of the gravity theory and the field strength tensor of the Maxwell theory, which provides a concrete realization of the classical double copy. Although intensively investigated,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Weicheng Zhao , Pu-Jian Mao , Jun-Bao Wu

We construct a double copy relation between the Cotton spinor and the dual field strength spinor of topologically massive theories, as the three-dimensional analogue of the Weyl double copy. The relationship holds in curved backgrounds for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Mariana Carrillo González , Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis

The self-dual double copy is further explored. In previous work, it has been shown that hyper-Hermitian manifolds also have associated the self-dual gauge theories via Kerr-Schild double copy. The self-dual double copy is generalized in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 E. Chacón , H. García-Compeán , G. Robles

We revisit the cutoff surface formulation of fluid-gravity duality in the context of the classical double copy. The spacetimes in this fluid-gravity duality are algebraically special, with Petrov type II when the spacetime is four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Cynthia Keeler , Tucker Manton , Nikhil Monga

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in non-abelian gauge theories and gravity. As such, it is usually expressed in the conventional second-order formalisms in both theories corresponding to standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Nathan Moynihan , Michael L. Reichenberg Ashby , Chris D. White

The double copy is a much-studied relationship between scattering amplitudes in gauge and gravity theories, that has subsequently been extended to classical field solutions. In nearly all previous examples, the graviton field is defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Nadia Bahjat-Abbas , Andrés Luna , Chris D. White

We study a host of spacetimes where the Weyl curvature may be expressed algebraically in terms of an Abelian field strength. These include Type D spacetimes in four and higher dimensions which obey a simple quadratic relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Rashid Alawadhi , David S. Berman , Bill Spence

We revisit the double copy description for linearized gravity and point out various technical issues and subtleties, associated with setting up the double copy description, including the problem of matching degrees of freedom on both sides…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-04 Gabriel Lopes Cardoso , Gianluca Inverso , Silvia Nagy , Suresh Nampuri

We study various classical aspects of the Weyl transverse (WTDiff) gravity in a general space-time dimension. First of all, we clarify a classical equivalence among three kinds of gravitational theories, those are, the conformally-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ichiro Oda

We show that the self-dual classical double copy can be straightforwardly extended to the higher-spin case when formulated in terms of light-cone gauge prepotentials. This allows us to construct a higher-spin extension for any self-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Nikita Misuna , Dmitry Ponomarev , Alexander Solomin

Classical double copy is an intriguing relationship between classical solutions to a gravity theory and solutions to classical Yang-Mills equations. Although formally inspired by the double copy relation between (quantum) scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Athira PV , A Manu

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes and classical solutions in Yang-Mills theory, gravity, and related field theories. Previous work has shown that this has an explicit realisation in self-dual YM theory, where the equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Erick Chacón , Hugo García-Compeán , Andres Luna , Ricardo Monteiro , Chris D. White

In spinor formalism, since any massless free-field spinor with spin higher than $1/2$ can be constructed with spin-1/2 spinors (Dirac-Weyl spinors) and scalars, we introduce a map between Weyl fields and Dirac-Weyl fields. We determine the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Shanzhong Han

In this thesis, we attempt to gain a more complete insight into Double Layer Theories in Weyl Gravity. In order to do this, we first establish the premise of Weyls Theory, including its provenance, development and flaws. This is all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Victor Berezin , Kushan Dharmadarshi