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We study the tree-level scattering of massless scalars followed by an emission of a soft graviton in the small compact region inside the static patch in de Sitter space. We derive in the small cosmological constant limit the perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Pratik Chattopadhyay , Divyesh N. Solanki

We extend our investigation of soft graviton effects on the microscopic dynamics of matter fields in de Sitter space. We evaluate the quantum equation of motion in generic gauge theories. We find that the Lorentz invariance can be respected…

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

We analyze scattering amplitudes with one soft external graviton and arbitrary number of other finite energy external states carrying arbitrary mass and spin to sub-subleading order in the momentum of the soft graviton. Our result can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

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

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

We argue that the scattering of gravitons in ordinary Einstein gravity possesses a hidden conformal symmetry at tree level in any number of dimensions. The presence of this conformal symmetry is indicated by the dilaton soft theorem in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Florian Loebbert , Matin Mojaza , Jan Plefka

We present a covariant framework to compute scattering amplitudes and potentials in a de Sitter background. In this setting, we compute the potential of a graviton-mediated scattering process involving two very massive scalars at tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-16 Renata Ferrero , Chris Ripken

The single-soft-graviton limit of any quantum gravity scattering amplitude is given at leading order by the universal Weinberg pole formula. Gauge invariance of the formula follows from global energy-momentum conservation. In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Freddy Cachazo , Andrew Strominger

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

In previous papers [1,2], it was proved that a covariant quantization of the minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space is achieved through addition of the negative norm states. This causal approach which eliminates the infrared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook

We define a perturbative S-matrix in a local patch of de Sitter background in the limit when the curvature length scale ($\ell$) is large and study the 'soft' behavior of the scalar QED amplitudes in de Sitter spacetime in generic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-02 Sayali Bhatkar , Diksha Jain

We summarize and expand our investigations concerning the soft graviton effects on microscopic matter dynamics in de Sitter space. The physical couplings receive IR logarithmic corrections which are sensitive to the IR cut-off at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-31 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We obtain the subleading soft theorem for a generic theory of quantum gravity, for arbitrary number of soft photons and gravitons and for arbitrary number of finite energy particles with arbitrary mass and spin when all the soft particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 Sayali Atul Bhatkar , Biswajit Sahoo

Chern-Simons perturbations introduce corrections to soft theorems for gauge theories at subleading $\mathcal{O}\left(\omega^0\right)$ order in soft momenta. We investigate these soft theorems in flat spacetime with perturbative $1/\ell^2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Pratik Chattopadhyay , Avi Wadhwa

Scalar-tensor gravity is one of the most competitive gravity theory to Einstein's relativity. We reconstruct the exact de Sitter solution in scalar-tensor gravity, in which the non-minimal coupling scalar is rolling along the potential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-04 Hongsheng Zhang , Xin-Zhou Li

The perturbative corrections to soft photon theorems with massive scalars in de Sitter spacetime were computed in [JHEP10(2023)055]. However, the massless limit of the scalar modes is ill-defined in their work. It therefore is ambiguous to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-04 Pratik Chattopadhyay

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

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

We compute the tree-level late-time graviton four-point correlation function, and the related quartic wavefunction coefficient, for Einstein gravity in de Sitter spacetime. We derive this result in several ways: by direct calculation, using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 James Bonifacio , Harry Goodhew , Austin Joyce , Enrico Pajer , David Stefanyszyn

It has been proposed recently to consider in the framework of cosmology an extension of the semiclassical Einstein's equations in which the Einstein tensor is considered as a random function. This paradigm yields a hierarchy of equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Claudio Dappiaggi , Alberto Melati
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