Log translation invariance of log soft gravitational radiation

The gravitational radiation emitted during a classical scattering process is known to exhibit two universal logarithmic terms in its soft frequency expansion. We show that these terms can be written in a way that makes the action of logarithmic translations manifest. Invariance under log translation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Boschetti, Gianni, Campiglia Curcho, Miguel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad de la República
Repositorio:COLIBRI
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:colibri.udelar.edu.uy:20.500.12008/53865
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/53865
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Classical theories of gravity
Space-time symmetries
Scattering amplitudes
Gauge symmetry
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Sumario:The gravitational radiation emitted during a classical scattering process is known to exhibit two universal logarithmic terms in its soft frequency expansion. We show that these terms can be written in a way that makes the action of logarithmic translations manifest. Invariance under log translations naturally explains a puzzling cancellation in the contribution from outgoing massless particles and leads to a recurrence relation for expected higher-order universal log soft terms.