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arxiv 2212.04975 v1 pith:CKPVAX4Z submitted 2022-12-09 hep-th

Constraints on Regge behaviour from IR physics

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We consider positivity constraints applicable to the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of gravity in arbitrary dimensions. By considering scattering of indefinite initial and final states, we highlight the existence of a gravitational scattering amplitude for which full crossing symmetry is manifest and utilize the recently developed crossing symmetric dispersion relations to derive compact non-linear bounds. We show that the null constraints built into these dispersion relations lead to a finite energy sum rule for gravity which may be extended to a one-parameter family of continuous moment sum rules. These sum rules enforce a UV-IR relation which imposes constraints on both the Regge trajectory and residue. We also highlight a situation where the Regge trajectory is uniquely determined in terms of the sub-Regge scale amplitude. Generically the Regge behaviour may be split into an IR sensitive part calculable within a given EFT which mainly depends on the lightest fields in Nature, and an IR independent part which are subject to universal positivity constraints following from unitarity and analyticity.

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