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Soft-collinear gravity

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We study collinear and soft singularities in perturbative quantum gravity by constructing an effective field theory similar to soft-collinear effective theory for QCD (SCET). We find that the soft sector exhibits factorization properties similar to those of SCET. The collinear sector is, however, quite different. While the leading-power collinear effective Lagrangian is trivial, the presence of the metric field $h_{++}$ with negative scaling dimension allows for collinear divergences in loop diagrams with couplings to non-collinear sources. We provide a compact proof of the well-known fact that there are no collinear singularities in perturbative quantum gravity by demonstrating the decoupling of $h_{++}$ from the sources. We briefly discuss the connection of our approach to recent work by Akhoury et al. (Phys. Rev. D84 (2011) 104040) as well as to the Weinberg's original paper (Phys. Rev. 140 (1965) B516), where the cancellation of the collinear singularities was demonstrated for the first time in the eikonal approximation.

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Negative running of gravitational positivity

hep-th · 2026-03-16 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Non-minimal three-point interactions induce negative one-loop running of Wilson coefficients in gravitational EFTs, yet graviton loops generate positive IR contributions that dominate the bounds after smearing if the species number is bounded.

The Classical Gravitational Impulse at High Energies

hep-th · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

The gravitational impulse for ultrarelativistic massive scalars is resummed to all orders in G_N at fixed G_N s/mb, recovering post-Minkowski results and predicting the leading high-energy behavior to eleventh post-Minkowski order.

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  • Negative running of gravitational positivity hep-th · 2026-03-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 64 · internal anchor

    Non-minimal three-point interactions induce negative one-loop running of Wilson coefficients in gravitational EFTs, yet graviton loops generate positive IR contributions that dominate the bounds after smearing if the species number is bounded.

  • Analytic structure of the high-energy gravitational amplitude: multi-H diagrams and classical 5PM logarithms hep-th · 2025-11-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 49 · internal anchor

    Computes the leading double logarithm at 5PM in the high-energy gravitational amplitude via multi-H diagrams and dispersion relations, extracting the single-log imaginary part of the eikonal phase.

  • The Classical Gravitational Impulse at High Energies hep-th · 2026-05-18 · unverdicted · none · ref 39 · internal anchor

    The gravitational impulse for ultrarelativistic massive scalars is resummed to all orders in G_N at fixed G_N s/mb, recovering post-Minkowski results and predicting the leading high-energy behavior to eleventh post-Minkowski order.

  • Comments on Symmetry Operators, Asymptotic Charges and Soft Theorems hep-th · 2026-04-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 39

    1-form symmetries in the QED soft sector generate asymptotic charges whose central extension implies soft photon theorems and fixes a two-soft-photon contact term.