Factorization properties of soft graviton amplitudes

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DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2011)060zbMATH Open1296.83030arXiv1103.2981OpenAlexW3104844473MaRDI QIDQ457435FDOQ457435

Chris D. White

Publication date: 26 September 2014

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

Abstract: We apply recently developed path integral resummation methods to perturbative quantum gravity. In particular, we provide supporting evidence that eikonal graviton amplitudes factorize into hard and soft parts, and confirm a recent hypothesis that soft gravitons are modelled by vacuum expectation values of products of certain Wilson line operators, which differ for massless and massive particles. We also investigate terms which break this factorization, and find that they are subleading with respect to the eikonal amplitude. The results may help in understanding the connections between gravity and gauge theories in more detail, as well as in studying gravitational radiation beyond the eikonal approximation.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2981




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