Topics in gravity SCET: the diff Wilson lines and reparametrization invariance
Abstract
Two topics in soft collinear effective theory (SCET) for gravitational interactions are explored. First, the collinear Wilson lines---necessary building blocks for maintaining multiple copies of diffeomorphism invariance in gravity SCET---are extended to all orders in the SCET expansion parameter , where it has only been known to in the literature. Second, implications of reparametrization invariance (RPI) for the structure of gravity SCET lagrangians are studied. The utility of RPI is illustrated by an explicit example in which hard interactions of a collinear graviton are completely predicted by RPI from its hard interactions. It is also pointed out that the multiple diffeomorphism invariances and RPI together require certain relations among terms, thereby reducing the number of terms that need to be fixed by matching onto the full theory in the first place.
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@article{arxiv.1910.10738,
title = {Topics in gravity SCET: the diff Wilson lines and reparametrization invariance},
author = {Sabyasachi Chakraborty and Takemichi Okui and Arash Yunesi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10738},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Minor additions included, accepted for publication in Phys. ReV. D