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We implement the worldline formalism in phase space to compute scattering amplitudes. First, the Feynman rules exhibit several useful universal features, reflecting elements of the symplectic geometry of the phase space target. Next,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Joon-Hwi Kim

It is expected that the quantum nature of spacetime leaves its imprint in all semiclassical gravitational systems, at least in certain regimes, including gravitational waves. In this paper we investigate such imprints on gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-01 Andrea Dapor , Klaus Liegener

This paper is the fourth in a series dedicated to the mathematically rigorous asymptotic analysis of gravitational radiation under astrophysically realistic setups. It provides an overview of the physical ideas involved in setting up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Lionor Kehrberger

We present novel analytical solutions for linear-order gravitational waves or tensor perturbations in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe containing two perfect fluids, radiation and pressureless dust, and allowing for neutrino…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-01 Andrew J. Wren , Jorge L. Fuentes , Karim A. Malik

We critically reexamine the gravitational scattering of scalar particles on a global monopole studied recently. The original investigation of Mazur and Papavassiliou is extended by considering different couplings of the scalar field to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Waldemar Puszkarz

In this paper, we study gravitational waves generated by binary systems within an extension of General Relativity which is described by the addition of quadratic in curvature tensor terms to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Treating quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-22 Yunho Kim , Archil Kobakhidze , Zachary S. C. Picker

In this paper we consider photon-photon scattering due to self-induced gravitational perturbations on a Minkowski background. We focus on four-wave interaction between plane waves with weakly space and time dependent amplitudes, since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , D. Eriksson , M. Marklund

We give a systematic analysis of forward scattering in 3$+$1-dimensional quantum gravity, at center of mass energies comparable or larger than the Planck energy. We show that quantum gravitational effects in this kinematical regime are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Herman Verlinde , Erik Verlinde

Gravitational waves are inevitably produced by second order terms in cosmological perturbation theory. Most notably, the so-called induced gravitational waves are a window to the small scales part of the primordial spectrum of fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Guillem Domènech

Gravitational waves provide a novel and powerful way to test astrophysical models of compact objects, early universe processes, beyond the Standard Model particle physics, dark matter candidates, Einstein's theory of General Relativity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-03 Mairi Sakellariadou

The classical scattering of spinning objects is well described by the spinor-helicity formalism for heavy particles. Using these variables, we derive spurious-pole-free, all-spin opposite-helicity Compton amplitudes (factorizing on physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Rafael Aoude , Kays Haddad , Andreas Helset

Classical subleading soft graviton theorem in four space-time dimensions determines the gravitational wave-form at late and early retarded time, generated during a scattering or explosion, in terms of the four momenta of the ingoing and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-27 Arnab Priya Saha , Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen

We compute graviton scattering amplitudes in M-theory using Feynman rules for a scalar particle coupled to gravity in eleven dimensions. The processes that we consider describe the single graviton exchange and the double graviton exchange,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Katrin Becker , Melanie Becker

Gravity whose nature is fundamental to the understanding of solar system, galaxies and the structure and evolution of the Universe, is theorized by the assumption of curved spacetime, according to Einstein`s general theory of relativity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-22 Jin He

In the framework of causal perturbation theory we consider a massive scalar field coupled to gravity. In the field theoretic approach to quantum gravity (QG) we start with a massless second rank tensor field. This tensor field is then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Wellmann

Picture yourself in the wave zone of a gravitational scattering event of two massive, spinning compact bodies (black holes, neutron stars or stars). We show that this system of genuine astrophysical interest enjoys a hidden $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-05 Gustav Uhre Jakobsen , Gustav Mogull , Jan Plefka , Jan Steinhoff

We study the space and properties of global and local observables for radiation emitted in the scattering of a massive scalar field in gauge and gravitational plane-wave backgrounds, in both the quantum and classical theory. We first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-14 Riccardo Gonzo , Anton Ilderton

Using modern amplitude techniques we compute the leading classical and quantum corrections to the classical gravitational potential between two massive scalars induced by adding an $R^3$ term to Einstein gravity. We then study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-11 Andreas Brandhuber , Gabriele Travaglini

This article studies the effects of an arbitrary dark matter spin tensor on the propagation of gravitational wave amplitude in the context of Einstein-Cartan theory. We choose to work with an arbitrary spin tensor because, given our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-21 E. Elizalde , F. Izaurieta , C. Riveros , G. Salgado , O. Valdivia

We propose a candidate Compton amplitude which is valid for any (integer) quantum spin and free from any spurious poles. We consider the cases of electromagnetism and gravity. We obtain such amplitudes by calculating the corresponding ones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-24 Thales Azevedo , Daniel E. A. Matamoros , Gabriel Menezes