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New Asymptotic Conservation laws for Electromagnetism

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-02-16 v2

Abstract

We obtain the subleading tail to the memory term in the late time electromagnetic radiative field generated due to a generic scattering of charged bodies. We show that there exists a new asymptotic conservation law which is related to the subleading tail term. The corresponding charge is made of a mode of the asymptotic electromagnetic field that appears at O(e5)\mathcal{O}(e^5) and we expect that it is uncorrected at higher orders. This hints that the subleading tail arises from classical limit of a 2-loop soft photon theorem. Building on the m=1m=1 \cite{1903.09133, 1912.10229} and m=2m=2 cases, we propose that there exists a conservation law for every mm such that the respective charge involves an O(e2m+1)\mathcal{O}(e^{2m+1}) mode and is conserved exactly. This would imply a hierarchy of an infinite number of mm-loop soft theorems. We also predict the structure of mthm^{th} order tails to the memory term that are tied to the classical limit of these soft theorems.

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@article{arxiv.2007.03627,
  title  = {New Asymptotic Conservation laws for Electromagnetism},
  author = {Sayali Atul Bhatkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.03627},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Eq (54) corrected. Other results unchanged

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