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We consider the tree-level scattering amplitudes in the NS-NS (Neveu-Schwarz) massless sector of closed superstrings in the case where one external state becomes soft. We compute the amplitudes generically for any number of dimensions and…

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We discuss recursion relations for scattering amplitudes with massive particles of any spin. They are derived via a two-parameter shift of momenta, combining a BCFW-type spinor shift with the soft limit of a massless particle involved in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Adam Falkowski , Camila S. Machado

In order to explain weak gravitation in our 4-dimensional universe, a 6-dimensional model with a small extra 2D sphere is proposed. The traceless energy-momentum tensor is quite naturally appeared in our 6-dimensional model. The warp factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-23 Akira Kokado , Takesi Saito

Taub-NUT black holes are somewhat exotic solutions to the vacuum Einstein equations, which have received limited attention in gravitational phenomenology. We use the soft behaviour of scattering amplitudes to compute the memory effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 George Doran , Ricardo Monteiro , Nathan Moynihan

The description of low-energy (``soft") gravitons using universal theorems continues to attract attention. In this paper, we consider the emission of two soft gravitons, using a previously developed formalism that describes (next-to) soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-03 Karan Fernandes , Feng-Li Lin , Chris D. White

Gravitational wave memory is said to arise when a gravitational wave burst produces changes in a physical system that persist even after that wave has passed. This paper analyzes gravitational wave bursts in plane wave spacetimes, deriving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Abraham I. Harte , Thomas B. Mieling , Marius A. Oancea , Elisabeth Steininger

The memory effect for Robinson-Trautman waves is explicitly worked out. In a first step, we construct the combined frame rotation and coordinate transformation in which Robinson-Trautman waves are manifestly locally asymptotically flat at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Glenn Barnich , Ali Seraj

The classical soft graviton theorem expresses the behavior of low-frequency gravitational radiation. In this paper, simplistic proofs of the classical soft graviton theorem for massless and massive scalar fields on $4$-D Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Raikhik Das

We obtain the matter-graviton scattering amplitude in the gravitational theory of quadratic curvature, which has $R_{\mu\nu}^2$ term in the action. Unitarity bound is not satisfied because of the existence of negative norm states, while an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Yugo Abe , Takeo Inami , Keisuke Izumi

The non-linear gravitational-wave memory effect is a prediction of general relativity in which test masses are permanently displaced by gravitational radiation. We implement a method for calculating the expected memory waveform from an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky , Fuhui Lin

Effects of massive object's spin on massive-massless $2 \to 2$ classical scattering is studied. Focus is set on the less-considered dimensionless expansion parameter $\lambda/b$, where $\lambda$ is the massless particle's wavelength and $b$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Wei-Ming Chen , Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim

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

I present a theory of quantum gravity based on the principle of gravitational energy fluctuations. Gravitational energy fluctuations -- gravitons -- are responsible for elastic scattering of subatomic particles. Such scattering corresponds…

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In this paper, we mainly consider large time behavior for the classical free wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u=0$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We derive some large time optimal estimates for the quantity of solution $\|u(t,\cdot)\|_{L^2}$ with initial…

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A new hierarchy of lasting gravitational-wave effects (the higher memory effects) was recently identified in asymptotically flat spacetimes, with the better-known displacement, spin, and center-of-mass memory effects included as the lowest…

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A novel criterion to determine the presence of gravitational radiation arriving to, or departing from, null infinity of any weakly asymptotically-simple space-time with vanishing cosmological constant is given. The quantities involved are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-04 Francisco Fernández-Álvarez , José M. M. Senovilla

Based on quantum origin of the universe, in this article we find that the universal wave function can be far richer than the superposition of many classical worlds studied by Everett. By analyzing the more general universal wave function…

General Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Yunuo Xiong , Hongwei Xiong

We investigate the soft behavior of the tree-level Rutherford scattering processes mediated via $t$-channel one-graviton exchange. We consider two types of Rutherford scattering processes, {\it e.g.}, a low-energy massless structureless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-01 Yu Jia , Jichen Pan , Jia-Yue Zhang

We give an account of the gravitational memory effect in the presence of the exact plane wave solution of Einstein's vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact description of the soft gravitons and how their presence may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 P. M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

This paper is the fourth in a series dedicated to the mathematically rigorous asymptotic analysis of gravitational radiation under astrophysically realistic setups. It provides an overview of the physical ideas involved in setting up the…

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