PIRSA:16110020

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https://pirsa.org/16110020

Weinberg Soft Theorems from Weinberg Adiabatic Modes

Mirbabayi, M. (2016). Weinberg Soft Theorems from Weinberg Adiabatic Modes. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/16110020

Mirbabayi, Mehrdad. Weinberg Soft Theorems from Weinberg Adiabatic Modes. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Nov. 08, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16110020 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:16110020,
            doi = {10.48660/16110020},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16110020},
            author = {Mirbabayi, Mehrdad},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Weinberg Soft Theorems from Weinberg Adiabatic Modes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2016},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:16110020 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/16110020}}
          }

Mehrdad Mirbabayi Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Talk numberPIRSA:16110020
DOI10.48660/16110020
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Soft theorems for the scattering of low energy photons and gravitons and cosmological consistency conditions on the squeezed-limit correlation functions are both understood to be consequences of invariance under large gauge transformations. I apply the same method used in cosmology -- based on the identification of an infinite set of "adiabatic modes" and the corresponding conserved currents -- to derive flat space soft theorems for electrodynamics and gravity. I discuss how the recent derivations based on the asymptotic symmetry groups (BMS) can be continued to a finite size sphere surrounding the scattering event. Finally, I comment on Hawking-Perry-Strominger proposal of "soft hair on black holes".