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Infinite Soft Theorems from Gauge Symmetry

Authors :
Li, Zhi-Zhong
Lin, Hung-Hwa
Zhang, Shun-Qing
Source :
Phys. Rev. D 98, 045004 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

In this letter we show that the soft behaviour of photons and graviton amplitudes, after projection, can be determined to infinite order in soft expansion via ordinary on-shell gauge invariance. In particular, as one of the particle's momenta becomes soft, gauge invariance relates the non-singular diagrams of an n-point amplitude to that of the singular ones up to possible homogeneous terms. We demonstrate that with a particular projection of the soft-limit, the homogeneous terms do not contribute, and one arrives at an infinite soft theorem. This reproduces the result recently derived from the Ward identity of large gauge transformations. We also discuss the modification of these soft theorems due to the presence of higher-dimensional operators.

Subjects

Subjects :
High Energy Physics - Theory

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Phys. Rev. D 98, 045004 (2018)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1802.03148
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.045004