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Various equivalences between so-called soft theorems which constrain scattering amplitudes and Ward identities related to asymptotic symmetries have recently been established in gauge theories and gravity. So far these equivalences have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-21 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

The leading soft photon theorem implies that four-dimensional scattering amplitudes are controlled by a two-dimensional (2D) $U(1)$ Kac-Moody symmetry that acts on the celestial sphere at null infinity ($\mathcal{I}$). This celestial $U(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Elizabeth Himwich , Andrew Strominger

We present new soft theorems for photon, gluon, and graviton correlators at tree level in (Anti)-de Sitter space. The results are derived by applying conformal Ward identities to constrain the structure of Witten diagrams.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Jiajie Mei , Yuyu Mo

If a set of charged objects collide in space and the fragments disperse, then this process will emit electromagnetic waves. Classical soft photon theorem determines the constant term and the leading power law fall-off of the wave-form at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Debanjan Karan , Babli Khatun , Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen

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

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

The soft photon theorem in U(1) gauge theories with only massless charged particles has recently been shown to be the Ward identity of an infinite-dimensional asymptotic symmetry group. This symmetry group is comprised of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-10 Daniel Kapec , Monica Pate , Andrew Strominger

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

It has been shown that in larger than four space-time dimensions, soft factors that relate the amplitudes with a soft photon or graviton to amplitudes without the soft particle also determine the low frequency radiative part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

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

We define a perturbative S-matrix in a local patch of de Sitter background in the limit when the curvature length scale ($\ell$) is large and study the 'soft' behavior of the scalar QED amplitudes in de Sitter spacetime in generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-02 Sayali Bhatkar , Diksha Jain

We show that the correlation functions of any single-field cosmological model with constant growing-modes are constrained by an infinite number of novel consistency relations, which relate (N+1)-point correlation functions with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Kurt Hinterbichler , Lam Hui , Justin Khoury

Classical soft photon and soft graviton theorems determine long wavelength electromagnetic and gravitational waveforms for a general classical scattering process in terms of the electric charges and asymptotic momenta of the ingoing and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Biswajit Sahoo

The AdS/CFT correspondence is applied to a close analogue of the little hierarchy problem in $AdS_{d+1}$, $d \geq 3$. The new mechanism requires a Maxwell field that gauges a $U(1)_R$ symmetry in a bulk supergravity theory with a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-08 Xi Dong , Daniel Z. Freedman , Yue Zhao

We consider soft electrons in massless QED at tree-level. The emission amplitude at leading order in the soft electron energy factorizes in a way similar to the soft photon case. We recast the soft electron factorization formula as a Ward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-24 Adrián Agriela , Miguel Campiglia

Working to all orders in dimensionally-regularized QCD, we study the radiation of a photon whose energy is much lower than that of external partons, but much larger than the masses of some quarks. We argue that the conventional soft photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Yao Ma , George Sterman , Aniruddha Venkata

We show that Weinberg's leading soft photon theorem in massless abelian gauge theories implies the existence of an infinite-dimensional large gauge symmetry which acts non-trivially on the null boundaries ${\mathscr I}^\pm$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-25 Temple He , Prahar Mitra

The perturbative corrections to soft photon theorems with massive scalars in de Sitter spacetime were computed in [JHEP10(2023)055]. However, the massless limit of the scalar modes is ill-defined in their work. It therefore is ambiguous to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Pratik Chattopadhyay

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 recast the soft $S$-matrices on the celestial sphere as correlation functions of certain $2$-dimensional models of topological defects. In pointing out the double copy structure between the soft photon and soft graviton cases, we arrive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Nikhil Kalyanapuram