Orbital precession and hidden symmetries in scalar-tensor theories

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/11/034arXiv2307.06331OpenAlexW4388487902MaRDI QIDQ6202591FDOQ6202591

Authors: A. C. Davis, Scott Melville 

Publication date: 26 February 2024

Published in: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We revisit the connection between relativistic orbital precession, the Laplace-Runge-Lenz symmetry, and the $t$-channel discontinuity of scattering amplitudes. Applying this to scalar-tensor theories of gravity, we compute the conservative potential and orbital precession induced by both conformal/disformal-type couplings at second Post-Minkowskian order ($mathcalOleft(G_N^{2}ight)$), complementing the known third/first order Post-Newtonian results. There is a particular tuning of the conformal coupling for which the precession vanishes at leading PN order, and we show that this coincides with the emergence of a Laplace-Runge-Lenz symmetry and a corresponding soft behaviour of the amplitude. While a single scalar field inevitably breaks this symmetry at higher PN orders, certain supersymmetric extensions have recently been shown to have an exact Laplace-Runge-Lenz symmetry and therefore classical orbits do not precess at any PN order. This symmetry can be used to relate scattering amplitudes at different loop orders, and we show how this may be used to bootstrap the (classically relevant part of the) three-loop $2o2$ scattering of charged black holes in $mathcalN=8$ supergravity from existing two-loop calculations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06331

zbMATH Keywords

black holesscalar-tensor theorysupersymmetryconformal transformationLaplace-Runge-Lenz vectororbital precessiondisformal transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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