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Topics in gravity SCET: the diff Wilson lines and reparametrization invariance

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-01 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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 λ\lambda, where it has only been known to O(λ)O(\lambda) 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 O(λ2)O(\lambda^2) hard interactions of a collinear graviton are completely predicted by RPI from its O(λ)O(\lambda) hard interactions. It is also pointed out that the multiple diffeomorphism invariances and RPI together require certain relations among O(λ)O(\lambda) terms, thereby reducing the number of O(λ)O(\lambda) 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

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