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We identify in Einstein gravity an asymptotic spin-$2$ charge aspect whose conservation equation gives rise, after quantization, to the sub-subleading soft theorem. Our treatment reveals that this spin-$2$ charge generates a non-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Laurent Freidel , Daniele Pranzetti , Ana-Maria Raclariu

In this paper, we derive a soft photon theorem and a soft gluon theorem in the de Sitter spacetime from the Ward identity of the near cosmological horizon large gauge transformation. Taking the flat limit of the de Sitter spacetime, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Pujian Mao , Kai-Yu Zhang

We hereby study the properties of a large class of weakly nonlocal gravitational theories around the (anti-) de Sitter spacetime background. In particular, we explicitly prove that the kinetic operator for the graviton field has the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-16 Alexey S. Koshelev , K. Sravan Kumar , Leonardo Modesto , Leslaw Rachwal

We derive formulae for the soft limit of tree-level gluon and graviton correlators in Anti-de Sitter space, which arise from Feynman diagrams encoding the Weinberg soft theorems in flat space. Other types of diagrams can also contribute to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Arthur Lipstein , Jiajie Mei , Yuyu Mo

In arXiv:1707.06803 we derived the subleading multiple 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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Subhroneel Chakrabarti , Sitender Pratap Kashyap , Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen , Mritunjay Verma

Superstring field theory gives expressions for heterotic and type II string loop amplitudes that are free from ultraviolet and infrared divergences when the number of non-compact space-time dimensions is five or more. We prove the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ashoke Sen

The soft photon and soft graviton theorems of Weinberg are known to derive from conservation laws associated with asymptotic symmetries. Within the corresponding classical theories, one often speaks of spontaneous symmetry breaking and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Shreyansh Agrawal , Kevin Nguyen

We consider $d$-dimensional static spacetimes in Einstein gravity with a cosmological constant in the presence of a minimally coupled massless scalar field. The spacetimes have a $(d-2)$-dimensional base manifold given by an Einstein space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-08 Sebastian Garcia Saenz , Cristian Martinez

We study the Einstein-scalar field system with positive cosmological constant and spherically symmetric characteristic initial data given on a truncated null cone. We prove well-posedness, global existence and exponential decay in (Bondi)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-08 Joao L. Costa , Artur Alho , Jose Natario

We compute leading soft theorem for multiple gravitinos (and graviton) in an arbitrary theory of supergravity with an arbitrary number of finite energy particles with arbitrary mass and arbitrary spin by extending Sen's approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Diksha Jain , Arnab Rudra

We obtain conditions for the existence and stability of de Sitter attractors in the phase space of spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmology in generalized theories of gravity (including non-linear and scalar-tensor theories). These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Valerio Faraoni

The classical soft graviton theorem expresses the behavior of low-frequency gravitational radiation. In this paper, simplistic proofs of the classical soft graviton theorem for massless and massive scalar fields on $4$-D Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Raikhik Das

In the framework of finite temperature conformal scalar field theory on de Sitter space-time the linearized Einstein equations for the renormalized stress tensor are exactly solved. In this theory quantum field fluctuations are concentrated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 D. V. Fursaev , G. Miele

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

In theories of Einstein gravity coupled with a dilaton and a two-form, a soft theorem for the two-form, known as the Kalb-Ramond B-field, has so far been missing. In this work we fill the gap, and in turn formulate a unified soft theorem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Paolo Di Vecchia , Raffaele Marotta , Matin Mojaza

We derive new constraints on massive gravity from unitarity and analyticity of scattering amplitudes. Our results apply to a general effective theory defined by Einstein gravity plus the leading soft diffeomorphism-breaking corrections. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

We propose a nonlocal field theory for gravity in presence of matter consistent with perturbative unitarity, quantum finiteness, and other essential classical properties that we are going to list below. First, the theory exactly reproduces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Leonardo Modesto

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

Quantum theories of gravity are generally expected to have some degree of non-locality, with familiar local physics emerging only in a particular limit. Perturbative quantum gravity around backgrounds with isometries and compact Cauchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Molly Kaplan , Donald Marolf , Xuyang Yu , Ying Zhao

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