Universality of ultra-relativistic gravitational scattering

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135924zbMATH Open1472.81248arXiv2008.12743OpenAlexW3081737771MaRDI QIDQ820399FDOQ820399

Authors: Paolo Di Vecchia, Carlo Heissenberg, Rodolfo Russo, Gabriele Veneziano 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We discuss the ultra-relativistic gravitational scattering of two massive particles at two-loop (3PM) level. We find that in this limit the real part of the eikonal, determining the deflection angle, is universal for gravitational theories in the two derivative approximation. This means that, regardless of the number of supersymmetries or the nature of the probes, the result connects smoothly with the massless case discussed since the late eighties by Amati, Ciafaloni and Veneziano. We analyse the problem both by using the analyticity and crossing properties of the scattering amplitudes and, in the case of the maximally supersymmetric theory, by explicit evaluation of the 4-point 2-loop amplitude using the results for the integrals in the full soft region. The first approach shows that the observable we are interested in is determined by the inelastic tree-level amplitude describing the emission of a graviton in the high-energy double-Regge limit, which is the origin of the universality property mentioned above. The second approach strongly suggests that the inclusion of the whole soft region is a necessary (and possibly sufficient) ingredient for recovering ultra relativistic finiteness and universality at the 3PM level. We conjecture that this universality persists at all orders in the PM expansion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12743

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Feynman integrals and graphs; applications of algebraic topology and algebraic geometry (81Q30) Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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