Ultra-Planck scattering in D=3 gravity theories
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Publication:1967585
DOI10.1016/0550-3213(94)90504-5zbMATH Open1007.83515arXivhep-th/9307092OpenAlexW2008466160MaRDI QIDQ1967585FDOQ1967585
Authors: Alan R. Steif, Stanley Deser, J. G. McCarthy 
Publication date: 6 March 2000
Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)
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 =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.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9307092
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