Ultra-Planck scattering in D=3 gravity theories

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90504-5MaRDI QIDQ1967585zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan R. Steif, Stanley Deser, J. G. McCarthy

Publication date 6 March 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9307092

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We obtain the high energy, small angle, 2-particle gravitational scattering amplitudes in topologically massive gravity (TMG) and its two non-dynamical constituents, Einstein and Chern--Simons gravity. We use 't Hooft's approach, formally equivalent to a leading order eikonal approximation: one of the particles is taken to scatter through the classical spacetime generated by the other, which is idealized to be lightlike. The required geometries are derived in all three models; in particular, we thereby provide the first explicit asymptotically flat solution generated by a localized source in TMG. In contrast to $D$=4, the metrics are not uniquely specified, at least by naive asymptotic requirements -- an indeterminacy mirrored in the scattering amplitudes. The eikonal approach does provide a unique choice, however. We also discuss the discontinuities that arise upon taking the limits, at the level of the solutions, from TMG to its constituents, and compare with the analogous topologically massive vector gauge field models.

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• Scattering amplitudes and the Cotton double copy
• Massive double copy in the high-energy limit

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