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Infrared divergences and the eikonal exponentiation

Carlo Heissenberg (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University)

Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.104.046016 (Physics and Astronomy)
License: CC BY

Abstract: The aim of this article is to explore the interplay between the eikonal resummation in impact-parameter space and the exponentiation of infrared divergences in momentum space for gravity amplitudes describing collisions of massive objects. The eikonal governs the classical dynamics relevant to the two-body problem, and its infrared properties are directly linked to the zero-frequency limit of the gravitational wave emission spectrum and to radiation-reaction effects. Combining eikonal and infrared exponentiations it is possible to derive these properties at a given loop order starting from lower-loop data. This is illustrated explicitly in $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity and in general relativity by deriving the divergent part of the two-loop eikonal from tree-level and one-loop elastic amplitudes.

Published on 16 Aug. 2021