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We derive the first ever on-shell recursion relations for amplitudes in effective field theories. Based solely on factorization and the soft behavior of amplitudes, these recursion relations employ a new rescaling momentum shift to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-03 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

We derive a new model-independent double-soft dilaton theorem, taking into account the spacetime dependence of the dilation commutator $[i Q_D,{\cal O}(x)]= (\Delta_{\cal O} + x \cdot \partial){\cal O}(x)$. The procedure restores positivity…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-08-25 Roman Zwicky

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 show that in supersymmetric theories, knowing the soft theorem for a single particle in a supermultiplet allows one to immediately determine soft theorems for the remainder of the supermultiplet. While soft theorems in supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Adam Tropper

We propose worldsheet formulae for wavefunction coefficients of the massive non-linear sigma model (NLSM), scalar Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI), and special Galileon (sGal) theories in de Sitter momentum space in terms of the recently proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-09 Connor Armstrong , Humberto Gomez , Renann Lipinski Jusinskas , Arthur Lipstein , Jiajie Mei

We present a bottom-up construction of vector effective field theories using the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. Our results employ two distinct probes of soft kinematics: multiple soft limits and single soft limits after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka , Congkao Wen

We study effective actions for simultaneous breaking of space-time and internal symmetries. Novel features arise due to the mixing of Goldstone modes under the broken symmetries which, in contrast to the usual Adler's zero, leads to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Massimo Bianchi , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Yu-tin Huang , Chao-Jung Lee , Congkao Wen

We study soft theorems in a broader context, addressing their fate at loop level and their universality in effective field theories and string theory. We argue that for gauge theories in the planar limit, loop-level soft gluon theorems can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Massimo Bianchi , Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

The soft bootstrap is an on-shell method to constrain the landscape of effective field theories (EFTs) of massless particles via the consistency of the low-energy S-matrix. Given assumptions on the on-shell data (particle spectra, linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Henriette Elvang , Marios Hadjiantonis , Callum R. T. Jones , Shruti Paranjape

We derive cosmological soft theorems for solids coupled to gravity. To this end, we first derive all cosmological adiabatic modes for solids, which display the interesting novelty of non-vanishing anisotropic stresses on large scales. Then,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Enrico Pajer , Sadra Jazayeri , Drian van der Woude

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

We show both the leading and subleading double soft theorems of the nonlinear sigma model follow from a shift symmetry enforcing Adler's zero condition in the presence of an unbroken global symmetry. They do not depend on the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-02 Ian Low

The soft limits of scattering amplitudes have been extensively studied due to their essential role in the computation of physical observables in collider physics. The universal factorisation that occurs in these kinematic limits has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm , Ana-Maria Raclariu

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

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 formulation of the non-linear sigma model in terms of flat connection allows the construction of a perturbative solution of a local functional equation encoding the underlying gauge symmetry. In this paper we discuss some properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ruggero Ferrari , Andrea Quadri

The field-theoretic wavefunction has received renewed attention with the goal of better understanding observables at the boundary of de Sitter spacetime and studying the interior of Minkowski or general FLRW spacetime. Understanding the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Mang Hei Gordon Lee

We study soft theorems at one loop in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory through finite order in the infrared regulator and to subleading order in the soft parameter {\delta}. In particular, we derive a universal constraint from dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Andreas Brandhuber , Edward Hughes , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

In flat space, the scattering amplitudes of certain scalar effective field theories exhibit enhanced soft limits due to the presence of hidden symmetries. In this paper, we show that this phenomenon extends to wavefunction coefficients in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Connor Armstrong , Arthur Lipstein , Jiajie Mei

Soft limits of massless S-matrix are known to reflect symmetries of the theory. In particular for theories with Goldstone bosons, the double-soft limit of scalars reveals the coset structure of the vacuum manifold. In this letter, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-23 Wei-Ming Chen , Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen