Gravitational positivity bounds

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2020)054zbMath1456.83031arXiv2007.15009OpenAlexW3099148468MaRDI QIDQ2658131

Shin'ichi Hirano, Katsuki Aoki, Junsei Tokuda

Publication date: 18 March 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15009

zbMATH Keywords

scattering amplitudeseffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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