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arxiv: 1712.01204 · v1 · pith:257NAWFAnew · submitted 2017-12-04 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Gravitational Memory in Higher Dimensions

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords effectmemorydimensionsgravitationalasymptoticcornercornersdetectors
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It is shown that there is a universal gravitational memory effect measurable by inertial detectors in even spacetime dimensions $d\geq 4$. The effect falls off at large radius $r$ as $r^{3-d}$. Moreover this memory effect sits at one corner of an infrared triangle with the other two corners occupied by Weinberg's soft graviton theorem and infinite-dimensional asymptotic symmetries.

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