Soft photon theorem in the small negative cosmological constant limit

Autor: Nabamita Banerjee, Karan Fernandes, Arpita Mitra
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2021, Iss 8, Pp 1-38 (2021)
Popis: We study the effect of electromagnetic interactions on the classical soft theorems on an asymptotically AdS background in 4 spacetime dimensions, in the limit of a small cosmological constant or equivalently a large AdS radius $l$. This identifies $1/l^2$ perturbative corrections to the known asymptotically flat spacetime leading and subleading soft factors. Our analysis is only valid to leading order in $1/l^2$. The leading soft factor can be expected to be universal and holds beyond tree level. This allows us to derive a $1/l^2$ corrected Ward identity, following the known equivalence between large gauge Ward identities and soft theorems in asymptotically flat spacetimes.
Comment: 41 pages, some parts of the draft (Introduction, Section 6, Conclusion) are revised, 1 figure and 2 new equations are included
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