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Graviton partial waves and causality in higher dimensions

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arxiv 2205.01495 v1 pith:EO4SB647 submitted 2022-05-03 hep-th gr-qc

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Do gravitational interactions respect the basic principles of relativity and quantum mechanics? We show that any graviton S-matrix that satisfies these assumptions cannot significantly differ from General Relativity at low energies. We provide sharp bounds on the size of potential corrections in terms of the mass M of new higher-spin states, in spacetime dimensions D>=5 where the S-matrix does not suffer from infrared ambiguities. The key novel ingredient is the full set of SO(D-1) partial waves for this process, which we show how to efficiently compute with Young tableau manipulations. We record new bounds on the central charges of holographic conformal theories.

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