Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity

Autor:	Caron-Huot, Simon, Li, Yue-Zhou, Parra-Martinez, Julio, Simmons-Duffin, David
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Theory General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1007/JHEP05(2023)122
Popis:	We study constraints from causality and unitarity on $2\to2$ graviton scattering in four-dimensional weakly-coupled effective field theories. Together, causality and unitarity imply dispersion relations that connect low-energy observables to high-energy data. Using such dispersion relations, we derive two-sided bounds on gravitational Wilson coefficients in terms of the mass $M$ of new higher-spin states. Our bounds imply that gravitational interactions must shut off uniformly in the limit $G \to 0$, and prove the scaling with $M$ expected from dimensional analysis (up to an infrared logarithm). We speculate that causality, together with the non-observation of gravitationally-coupled higher spin states at colliders, severely restricts modifications to Einstein gravity that could be probed by experiments in the near future. Comment: 35 pages + appendices + refs, 14 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06602 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv