All order gravitational waveforms from scattering amplitudes
High Energy Physics - Theory
2023-07-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Waveforms are classical observables associated with any radiative physical process. Using scattering amplitudes, these are usually computed in a weak-field regime to some finite order in the post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximation. Here, we use strong field amplitudes to compute the waveform produced in scattering of massive particles on gravitational plane waves, treated as exact nonlinear solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations. Notably, the waveform contains an infinite number of post-Minkowskian contributions, as well as tail effects. We also provide, and contrast with, analogous results in electromagnetism.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2210.04696,
title = {All order gravitational waveforms from scattering amplitudes},
author = {Tim Adamo and Andrea Cristofoli and Anton Ilderton and Sonja Klisch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.04696},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
16 pages + references, 1 figure. v2: added appendix on perturbative limits, published version