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The Weyl double copy is a formula relating solutions of scalar, gauge and gravity theories, and is related to the BCJ double copy for scattering amplitudes. The latter relates Yang-Mills theory to ${\cal N}=0$ supergravity, where an axion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Kymani Armstrong-Williams , Chris D. White

We explore various tree-level double copy constructions for amplitudes including massive particles with spin. By working in general dimensions, we use that particles with spins $s\leq 2$ are fundamental to argue that the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Yilber Fabian Bautista , Alfredo Guevara

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

The Weyl double copy is a procedure for relating exact solutions in biadjoint scalar, gauge and gravity theories, and relates fields in spacetime directly. Where this procedure comes from, and how general it is, have until recently remained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Erick Chacón , Silvia Nagy , Chris D. White

We study relative motion of nearby test particles in Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) in three spacetime dimensions, using the equation of geodesic deviation. We show that, in a suitable reference frame, the influence of any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-08 Matus Papajcik , Jiri Podolsky

The duality between color and kinematics was originally observed for purely adjoint massless gauge theories, and later found to hold even after introducing massive fermionic and scalar matter in arbitrary gauge-group representations. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Henrik Johansson , Alexander Ochirov

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

The double copy relates gauge and gravitational theories, with widespread application to quantum scattering amplitudes and classical perturbative results. It also connects exact classical solutions of Abelian gauge and gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Brian Kent , Aaron Zimmerman

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

We extend Shen's recent formulation (arXiv:1806.07388) of the classical double copy, based on explicit color-kinematic duality, to the case of finite-size sources with non-zero spin. For the case of spinning Yang-Mills sources, the most…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 Walter D. Goldberger , Jingping Li

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

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

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

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

We clarify the relation between the classical double copy and the double copy for amplitudes in the setting of selfdual gauge and gravity theories. To this end we construct explicit all-order perturbative solutions in these theories and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-21 Joris Raeymaekers

We consider the classical double copy, that relates solutions of biadjoint scalar, gauge and gravity theories. Using a recently developed twistor expression of this idea, we use well-established techniques to show that the multipole moments…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Erick Chacón , Andres Luna , Chris D. White

We discuss the generalisation of the Weyl double copy to higher spin "multi-copies", showing how the natural linearised higher spin field strengths can be related to sums of powers of the Maxwell tensor. The tracelessness of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-16 Graham R. Brown , Bill Spence

Using the principles of the modern scattering amplitudes programme, we develop a formalism for constructing the amplitudes of three-dimensional topologically massive gauge theories and gravity. Inspired by recent developments in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-16 Nathan Moynihan

Double copy relates scattering amplitudes in a web of gravitational and gauge theories. Although it has seen great success when applied to amplitudes in vacuum, far less is known about double copy in arbitrary gravitational and gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Anton Ilderton , William Lindved

The Newman-Penrose map, which is closely related to the classical double copy, associates certain exact solutions of Einstein's equations with self-dual solutions of the vacuum Maxwell equations. Here we initiate an extension of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-20 Kara Farnsworth , Michael Graesser , Gabriel Herczeg