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The gravitational $mathcal{S}$-matrix defined with an infrared (IR) cutoff factorizes into hard and soft factors. The soft factor is universal and contains all the IR and collinear divergences. Here we show, in a momentum space basis, that the intricate expression for the soft factor is fully reproduced by two boundary currents, which live on the celestial sphere. The first of these is the supertranslation current, which generates spacetime supertranslations. The second is its symplectic partner, the Goldstone current for spontaneously broken supertranslations. The current algebra has an off-diagonal level structure involving the gravitational cusp anomalous dimension and the logarithm of the IR cutoff. It is further shown that the gravitational memory effect is contained as an IR safe observable within the soft $mathcal{S}$-matrix.
At leading order, the $S$-matrices in QED and gravity are known to factorise, providing unambiguous determinations of the parts divergent due to infrared contributions. The soft $S$-matrices defined in this fashion are shown to be defined entirely in terms of $2$ dimensional models on the celestial sphere, involving two real scalar fields, allowing us to express the soft $S$-matrices for real as well as virtual divergences as two dimensional correlation functions. We discuss what this means for finding holographic representations of scattering amplitudes in QED and gravity and comment on simple double copy structures that arise during the analysis.
We show that in the quadratic curvature theory of gravity, or simply $R_{mu u} ^2$ gravity, the tree-level unitariy bound (tree unitarity) is violated in the UV region but an analog for $S$-matrix unitarity ($SS^{dagger} = 1$) is satisfied. This theory is renormalizable, and hence the failure of tree unitarity is a counter example of Llewellyn Smiths conjecture on the relation between them. We have recently proposed a new conjecture that $S$-matrix unitarity gives the same conditions as renormalizability. We verify that $S$-matrix unitarity holds in the matter-graviton scattering at tree level in the $R_{mu u} ^2$ gravity, demonstrating our new conjecture.
The infrared behavior of perturbative quantum gravity is studied using the method developed for QED by Faddeev and Kulish. The operator describing the asymptotic dynamics is derived and used to construct an IR-finite S matrix and space of asymptotic states. All-orders cancellation of IR divergences is shown explicitly at the level of matrix elements for the example case of gravitational potential scattering. As a practical application of the formalism, the soft part of a scalar scattering amplitude is related to the gravitational Wilson line and computed to all orders.
We study various properties of the soft modes in the $mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric SYK model.
In this article, we seek exact charged spherically symmetric black holes (BHs) with considering $f(mathcal{R})$ gravitational theory. These BHs are characterized by convolution and error functions. Those two functions depend on a constant of integration which is responsible to make such a solution deviate from the Einstein general relativity (GR). The error function which constitutes the charge potential of the Maxwell field depends on the constant of integration and when this constant is vanishing we can not reproduce the Reissner-Nordstrom BH in the lower order of $f(mathcal{R})$. This means that we can not reproduce Reissner-Nordstrom BH in lower-order-curvature theory, i.e., in GR limit $f(mathcal{R})=mathcal{R}$, we can not get the well known charged BH. We study the physical properties of these BHs and show that it is asymptotically approached as a flat spacetime or approach AdS/dS spacetime. Also, we calculate the invariants of the BHS and show that the singularities are milder than those of BHs of GR. Additionally, we derive the stability condition through the use of geodesic deviation. Moreover, we study the thermodynamics of our BH and investigate the impact of the higher-order-curvature theory. Finally, we show that all the BHs are stable and have radial speed equal to one through the use of odd-type mode.