2D Stress Tensor for 4D Gravity

We use the subleading soft-graviton theorem to construct an operator T_{zz} whose insertion in the four-dimensional tree-level quantum gravity S matrix obeys the Virasoro-Ward identities of the energy momentum tensor of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT_{2}). The celestial sphere at Mink...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2017-09, Vol.119 (12), p.121601, Article 121601
Hauptverfasser: Kapec, Daniel, Mitra, Prahar, Raclariu, Ana-Maria, Strominger, Andrew
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We use the subleading soft-graviton theorem to construct an operator T_{zz} whose insertion in the four-dimensional tree-level quantum gravity S matrix obeys the Virasoro-Ward identities of the energy momentum tensor of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT_{2}). The celestial sphere at Minkowskian null infinity plays the role of the Euclidean sphere of the CFT_{2}, with the Lorentz group acting as the unbroken SL(2,C) subgroup.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.121601