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This thesis develops a unified framework that reconstructs the full classical content of General Relativity from the classical limit of quantum scattering amplitudes. By interpreting the analytic structure of amplitudes as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Claudio Gambino

The correspondence of stationary, axisymmetric, asymptotically flat space-times and bundles over a reduced twistor space has been established in four dimensions. The main impediment for an application of this correspondence to examples in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-03 Norman Metzner

Penrose's spinor calculus of 4-dimensional Lorentzian geometry is extended to the case of 5-dimensional Lorentzian geometry. Such fruitful ideas in Penrose's spinor calculus as the spin covariant derivative, the curvature spinors or the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alfonso García-Parrado Gómez-Lobo , José M. Martín-García

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

The inclusion of spin effects in the binary dynamics for black hole and neutron stars is crucial for the computation of gravitational wave observables. Worldline supersymmetric models have shown to be particularly efficient at this task up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-19 Domenico Bonocore , Anna Kulesza , Johannes Pirsch

This paper presents a calculation of the four gravitons amplitude in (Anti)-de Sitter space, focusing specifically on external gravitons with positive helicity. To achieve this, we employ a generalized recursion method that involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Soner Albayrak , Savan Kharel

Processes involving electroweak vector bosons in association with jets are crucial for precision studies of the Standard Model at the Large Hadron Collider. Accurate predictions for the process $pp\rightarrow V(\rightarrow\bar\ell\ell)jj$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-25 Giuseppe De Laurentis

We combine tools from effective field theory and generalized unitarity to construct a map between on-shell scattering amplitudes and the classical potential for interacting spinless particles. For general relativity, we obtain analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-31 Clifford Cheung , Ira Z. Rothstein , Mikhail P. Solon

We use the non-minimal pure spinor formalism to compute in a super-Poincare covariant manner the four-point massless one and two-loop open superstring amplitudes, and the gauge anomaly of the six-point one-loop amplitude. All of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nathan Berkovits , Carlos R. Mafra

The spinor helicity formalism in four dimensions has become a very useful tool both for understanding the structure of amplitudes and also for practical numerical computation of amplitudes. Recently, there has been some discussion of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-09 Simon Caron-Huot , Donal O'Connell

We develop a novel amplitude bootstrap technique manifestly free of unphysical poles for classically spinning particles interacting with gravitons utilizing only the double-copy and physical factorization limits. Combined with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Marcos Skowronek

We study contact four-point amplitudes in the spinor-helicity formalism in anti-de Sitter space. We find that these amplitudes can be brought to an especially simple form, which we call canonical. Next, we classify consistent contact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Balakrishnan Nagaraj , Dmitry Ponomarev

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

In this paper we will review some facts, both classical and recent, concerning the geometry and analysis of the Kerr and related black hole spacetimes. This includes the analysis of test fields on these spacetimes. Central to our analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-30 Lars Andersson , Thomas Bäckdahl , Pieter Blue

We provide evidence that the classical scattering of two spinning black holes is controlled by the soft expansion of exchanged gravitons. We show how an exponentiation of Cachazo-Strominger soft factors, acting on massive higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Alfredo Guevara , Alexander Ochirov , Justin Vines

In this letter we suggest a natural spinor-helicity formalism for massless fields in AdS${}_4$. It is based on the standard realization of the AdS${}_4$ isometry algebra $so(3,2)$ in terms of differential operators acting on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Balakrishnan Nagaraj , Dmitry Ponomarev

Inspired by the idea of viewing amplitudes in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM as differential forms on momentum twistor space, we introduce differential forms on the space of spinor variables, which combine helicity amplitudes in any four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Song He , Chi Zhang

Assuming locality, Lorentz invariance and parity conservation we obtain a set of differential equations governing the 3-point interactions of massless bosons, which in turn determines the polynomial ring of these amplitudes. We derive all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Zhengdi Sun , Hui Xu , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung

We examine a hypersurface model for the classical dynamics of spinning black holes. Under specific rigid geometric constraints, it reveals an intriguing solution resembling expectations for the Kerr Black three-point amplitude. We explore…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr , Gang Chen , Chenliang Su , Tianheng Wang

The correspondence between stationary, axisymmetric, asymptotically flat space-times and bundles over a reduced twistor space has been established in four dimensions. The main impediment for an application of this correspondence to examples…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Norman Metzner