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2–6 Sept 2024
University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Asymptotics for subleading soft theorems at all orders

5 Sept 2024, 12:00
30m
B46/LTA (University of Southampton)

B46/LTA

University of Southampton

Plenary talk Plenary session

Speaker

Silvia Nagy

Description

It is by now well understood how leading soft theorems follow as Ward identities of asymptotic symmetries defined at null infinity. For subleading infrared effects the connection is more subtle, but it turns out that this can be formalised, to all orders in the energy expansion, by adapting the Stuckelberg procedure to construct an extended radiative phase space at null infinity. I will exemplify this with Yang-Mills theory, showing the construction of the extended phase space, as well as the charges corresponding to the subleading soft theorems at all orders. These turn out to satisfy simple recursion relations, and organise themselves into infinite dimensional algebras in certain subsectors.

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