Radiative contribution to classical gravitational scattering at the third order in $G$

hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 8.0 of 10

Using worldline quantum field theory, the authors derive the impulse and spin kick for a spinning probe scattering in Kerr spacetime through seventh physical post-Minkowskian order.

hep-th 2025-01 accept novelty 8.0 of 10

A closed-form, all-velocity expression for the O(G^4) radiated angular momentum in two-body gravitational scattering is derived, resumming all half-odd post-Newtonian corrections.

hep-th 2026-08 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Coherent-state dressings by zero-energy gravitons are equivalent to BMS supertranslations, and the associated conserved charge produces a universal, all-orders shift of the scattering impact parameter.

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

The Kerr soft exponent generates a parity-alternating hierarchy of null-infinity frame generators—displacement memory at s=0, spin memory at s=1, and higher moments alternating by Kerr multipole parity—realized as the...

hep-th 2026-01 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

The conservative black-hole scattering angle at fifth post-Minkowskian and second self-force order is computed in terms of K3 periods, but contains a coefficient fixed only by an ad hoc 'γ-3' prescription.

hep-th 2025-10 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Worldline gravitational observables can be bootstrapped from locality, unitarity, gauge invariance, and a soft theorem once worldline energies are complexified, reproducing the known O(G^5/2) waveform and O(G^3) on-sh...

gr-qc 2025-07 accept novelty 7.0 of 10

The paper derives 6.5PN tail-of-tail contributions to binary dynamics and finds agreement with independent self-force and worldline-EFT results.

hep-th 2025-06 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

Exact-in-velocity formulas for the O(G^3) nonlinear gravitational memory multipoles from two-body scattering, derived with scattering amplitudes and reverse unitarity, and matched to post-Newtonian results.

hep-th 2025-05 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

By adding non-minimal couplings to a supersymmetric worldline model, the authors derive new higher-spin Hamiltonians, including an all-order-in-spin Kerr Hamiltonian in 4D and a cubic-in-spin Hamiltonian in arbitrary ...

hep-th 2024-12 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

A new generalized Wilson line representation for spin-1/2 and classical spinning bodies is derived, reproducing known 2PM gravitational scattering observables.

hep-th 2024-11 conditional novelty 7.0 of 10

A bosonic-oscillator worldline action for spinning compact bodies in general relativity is constructed, and it reproduces known post-Minkowskian scattering results while remaining valid to all orders in spin.

gr-qc 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

Near-separatrix logarithmic divergence, anchored by fitted unstable-circular-orbit fluxes, yields resummed formulas for energy loss in extreme-mass-ratio scattering that track exact numerical calculations to about 10-25%.

gr-qc 2026-02 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

A probe scattering off a Schwarzschild black hole transfers a definite leading-order post-Minkowskian angular momentum to the horizon, given by new closed formulas (3.24b), (3.29), (3.36).

gr-qc 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

The 5PM-1SF radiated energy and the complete 4PM-1SF radiated angular momentum to 7PN order are derived for a point mass scattering off a Schwarzschild black hole, along with the resulting 5PM radiation-reacted scatte...

hep-th 2025-04 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

The Tutti Frutti and Worldline Effective Field Theory formalisms agree for black hole scattering through fifth post-Minkowskian order, with new second-self-force predictions for two gauge-invariant observables.

hep-th 2024-11 accept novelty 6.0 of 10

Asymptotic in-in observables are computed from a soft limit of five-point causal response functions, reproducing KMOC results and resolving the radiated angular momentum ambiguity in scalar QED.

hep-th 2026-07 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Kerr soft dressing exponentiates into a parity-alternating tower of frame shifts whose chiral-projected composition law is the w1+∞ bracket, solved in closed form for aligned spin.

gr-qc 2025-10 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

Angular momentum in GR is made unambiguous by fixing supertranslation frames through the center-of-mass condition J_{\mu\nu}P^\nu=0, extended covariantly to the final state via P^i_\mu P^f_\nu J^{f\mu\nu}=0.

gr-qc 2025-05 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

A revised boundary-to-bound dictionary, using p_inf^2 -> p_inf^2 e^(-i pi), makes fourth-order post-Minkowskian bound-orbit observables real and matches numerical relativity binding energies for mass ratios 1 and 10.

gr-qc 2024-11 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

High-energy equal-mass black hole scattering data show that L-resummation, weob, and SEOB-PM models all develop pathological behavior, with NR-calibrated pseudo-5PM corrections and Padé-resummed EOB potentials offerin...

gr-qc 2025-05 conditional novelty 4.0 of 10

A perspective paper on ADM/BMS interconnections that separates radiative and static angular-momentum loss, and uses an explicit O(G) example to show antipodal energy matching at i0 is not actual energy flow.

hep-th 2026-08 conditional novelty 3.0 of 10

A doctoral thesis reproduces the author's published post-Newtonian and post-Minkowskian two-body observables and celestial amplitudes in scalar-tensor, Chern-Simons, Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton, and quadratic gravity.