Log Soft Constraints on KMOC Formalism
Abstract
The KMOC formalism provides a systematic framework for extracting classical observables perturbatively from on-shell scattering amplitudes. In this work, we apply this formalism to compute electromagnetic observables in four dimensions, focusing in particular on the linear memory effect and its tail contributions. Using the leading and subleading soft-photon theorems to construct the soft radiation kernel, we demonstrate how these infrared observables emerge directly from amplitude data. We further show that demanding the expected non-perturbative properties of memory and tail effects imposes a nontrivial set of consistency conditions on the underlying S-matrix. We interpret these constraints as imposing the requirement of macroscopic causality on the S-matrix via analysis of inclusive observables.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.00336,
title = {Log Soft Constraints on KMOC Formalism},
author = {Siddhartha Paul and Adarsh Vishwakarma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.00336},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
42 pages, 7 figures