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We derive the subleading soft graviton theorem in a generic quantum theory of gravity for arbitrary number of soft external gravitons and arbitrary number of finite energy external states carrying arbitrary mass and spin. Our results are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Subhroneel Chakrabarti , Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen , Mritunjay Verma

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 analyze the single subleading soft graviton theorem in $(d+1)$ dimensions under compactification on $S^1$. This produces the single soft theorems for the graviton, vector and scalar fields in $d$ dimension. For the compactification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Raffaele Marotta , Mritunjay Verma

In this note we show how the 1-loop exact correction to the subleading soft graviton theorem arising from IR divergences of scattering amplitudes matches onto the quadratic corrections to the soft charges computed from the BMS flux algebra.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-25 Sabrina Pasterski

We show that the Ward identities of a Carrollian CFT stress tensor at null infinity reproduce the leading and subleading soft graviton theorems for massless scattering in the bulk. We deduce the expressions of the stress tensor components…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Romain Ruzziconi , Amartya Saha

Lysov, Pasterski and Strominger have shown how Low's subleading soft photon theorem can be understood as Ward identities of new symmetries of massless QED. In this paper we offer a different perspective and show that there exists a class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

We study the linearized gravity theory in the Newman-Unti gauge in the near horizon region of the de Sitter spacetime. The linearized Einstein equation involves the cosmological constant. The near horizon symmetry consists of near horizon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Pujian Mao , Bochen Zhou

The existing equivalence between (generalized) BMS Ward identities with leading and subleading soft graviton theorems is extended to the case where the scattering particles are massive scalars. By extending the action of generalized BMS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

Soft factorization theorems can be reinterpreted as Ward identities for (asymptotic) symmetries of scattering amplitudes in asymptotically flat space-time. In this paper we study the symmetries implied by the all loop soft photon theorems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Shamik Banerjee , Raju Mandal , Biswajit Sahoo

Supersymmetric Ward identity for the low energy effective action in the standard background gauge is derived for {\it arbitrary} trajectories of supergravitons in Matrix Theory. In our formalism, the quantum-corrected supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Kazama , T. Muramatsu

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

The scale invariance of the quantum fluctuations in de Sitter space leads to the appearance of de Sitter symmetry breaking infra-red logarithms in the graviton propagator. We investigate physical effects of soft gravitons on the local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-14 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We present a derivation of the classical log soft graviton theorem within the asymptotic framework of Comp\`ere, Gralla, and Wei. The proof relies solely on Einstein equations near timelike, spatial, and null infinity, together with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Gianni Boschetti , Miguel Campiglia

In this paper, we derive a soft gluon theorem in the near horizon region of the Schwarzschild black hole from the Ward identity of the near horizon large gauge transformation. The flat spacetime soft gluon theorem can be recovered as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Peng Cheng , Pujian Mao

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

The symmetries of the gravitational scattering are intimately tied to the symmetries which preserve asymptotic flatness at null infinity. In Penrose's definition of asymptotic flatness, a central role is played by the notion of asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-13 Marc Geiller , Alok Laddha , Céline Zwikel

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

Asymptotic symmetries of theories with gravity in d=2m+2 spacetime dimensions are reconsidered for m>1 in light of recent results concerning d=4 BMS symmetries. Weinberg's soft graviton theorem in 2m+2 dimensions is re-expressed as a Ward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Daniel Kapec , Vyacheslav Lysov , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger

Mimetic gravity is a modified theory of gravity which is able to incorporate dark matter into the underlying geometry of space-time by isolating the conformal degree of freedom. The theory has been studied extensively in the cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-08 Leonid Sarieddine

We use insights from superstring field theory to prove the subleading soft graviton theorem for tree amplitudes of (compactified) heterotic and type II string theories for arbitrary number of finite energy NS (NSNS) sector external states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-25 Ashoke Sen