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In this letter we show that the soft behaviour of photons and graviton amplitudes, after projection, can be determined to infinite order in soft expansion via ordinary on-shell gauge invariance. In particular, as one of the particle's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Zhi-Zhong Li , Hung-Hwa Lin , Shun-Qing Zhang

We demonstrate the equivalence between KMOC and worldline formalisms for classical general relativity, highlighting how the Keldysh-Schwinger in-in formalism is contained in both of them even though the KMOC representation conventionally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Poul H. Damgaard , Elias Roos Hansen , Ludovic Planté , Pierre Vanhove

We extend the soft theorems for scattering amplitudes of scalar effective field theories to one-loop order. Our analysis requires carefully accounting for the fact that the soft limit is not guaranteed to commute with evaluating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Timothy Cohen , Ipak Fadakar , Andreas Helset , Filippo Nardi

We study observables in the scattering of classical, spinning objects using the KMOC formalism. In particular, we derive formulas to higher order in spin and one loop $\mathcal{O}(G^2)$ for the spin kick and momentum impulse. Our derivation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Juan Pablo Gatica

A central feature of scattering amplitudes in gravity or gauge theory is the existence of a variety of energetically soft theorems which put constraints on the amplitudes. Celestial amplitudes which are obtained from momentum-space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Andrea Puhm

Soft theorems describe the behavior of scattering amplitudes when one or several external particles are taken to be energetically soft. In tree-level gravity there are universal soft theorems for the three leading orders in the soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-24 Eivind Jørstad , Sruthi A. Narayanan

The quantum field-theoretic approach to classical observables due to Kosower, Maybee and O'Connell provides a rigorous pathway from on-shell scattering amplitudes to classical perturbation theory. In this paper, we promote this formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-06 Rafael Aoude , Alexander Ochirov

Inspired by the new soft theorem in gravity by Cachazo and Strominger, the soft theorem for color-ordered Yang-Mills amplitudes has also been identified by Casali. In this note, the same content of N=4 SYM using the Grassmannian formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-23 Junjie Rao

We employ the "KMOC" formalism of [1] to compute classical momentum deflections of spinning bodies with arbitrary spin orientations up to next-to-leading order (one loop). We do this in electrodynamics and gravity. The final result, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-18 Gabriel Menezes , Matteo Sergola

Extensions of the photon and graviton soft theorems are derived in 4d local effective field theories with massless particles of arbitrary spin. We prove that effective operators can result in new terms in the soft theorems at subleading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 Henriette Elvang , Callum R. T. Jones , Stephen G. Naculich

We introduce a covariant Multipole Expansion for the scattering of a massive particle emitting photons or gravitons in $D$ dimensions. We find that these amplitudes exhibit very powerful features such as universality, soft exponentiation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-17 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara

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

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

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

We generalise the Kosower-Maybee-O'Connell (KMOC) formalism relating classical observables and scattering amplitudes to curved backgrounds. We show how to compute the final semiclassical state for a particle moving in a curved background in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Anton Ilderton

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

Classical soft graviton theorem gives an expression for the spectrum of low frequency gravitational radiation, emitted during a classical scattering process, in terms of the trajectories and spin angular momenta of ingoing and outgoing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

We study the effect of electromagnetic interactions on the classical soft theorems on an asymptotically AdS background in 4 spacetime dimensions, in the limit of a small cosmological constant or equivalently a large AdS radius $l$. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Nabamita Banerjee , Karan Fernandes , Arpita Mitra

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

In a previous work and in terms of an exact quantum-mechanical framework, $\hbar$-independent causal and retarded expectation values of the second-quantized electro-magnetic fields in the Coulomb gauge were derived in the presence of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Bo-Sture K. Skagerstam , Karl-Erik Eriksson , Per K. Rekdal