Physics:Double copy theory

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Short description: Theory for scattering amplitudes in perturbative quantum gravity

Double copy theory is a theory in theoretical physics, specifically in quantum gravity, that hypothesizes a perturbative duality between gauge theory and gravity. The theory says that scattering amplitudes in non-Abelian gauge theories can be factorized such that replacement of the color factor by additional kinematic dependence factor, in a well-defined way, automatically leads to gravity scattering amplitudes. It was first written down by Zvi Bern, John Joseph Carrasco and Henrik Johansson in 2010 [1] and was sometimes known as the BCJ duality after its creators[2] or as "gravity = gauge × gauge".[3]

The theory can be used to make calculations of gravity scattering amplitudes simpler by instead calculating the Yang–Mills amplitude and following the double copy prescription.[4] This technique has been used, for example, to calculate the shape of gravitational waves emitted by two merging black hole.[5][6] This was proven to work at tree level and at higher orders,[1] including at fourth post-Minkowskian order.[7] The theory has been applied to black holes.[8]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Bern, Zvi; Carrasco, John Joseph M; Johansson, Henrik (2010). "Perturbative Quantum Gravity as a Double Copy of Gauge Theory". Physical Review Letters 105 (6): 061602. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.061602. PMID 20867971. Bibcode2010PhRvL.105f1602B. 
  2. Oxburgh, S. and White, C.D. (22 February 2013). "BCJ duality and the double copy in the soft limit.". J. High Energy Phys. 2013 (127): 127. doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2013)127. Bibcode2013JHEP...02..127O. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2013)127. 
  3. Borsten, L. (11 March 2020). "Gravity as the square of gauge theory: a review". La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 43 (3): 97–186. doi:10.1007/s40766-020-00003-6. Bibcode2020NCimR..43...97B. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40766-020-00003-6. 
  4. White, C. D. (12 January 2018). "The double copy: gravity from gluons". Contemporary Physics 59 (2): 109–125. doi:10.1080/00107514.2017.1415725. Bibcode2018ConPh..59..109W. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00107514.2017.1415725. 
  5. Goldberger, Walter D.; Ridgway, Alexander K. (2017-06-30). "Radiation and the classical double copy for color charges". Physical Review D 95 (12): 125010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.125010. Bibcode2017PhRvD..95l5010G. https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.125010. 
  6. Wood, Charlie (2022-03-29). "Massive Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles" (in en). https://www.quantamagazine.org/massive-black-holes-shown-to-act-like-quantum-particles-20220329/. 
  7. Bern, Zvi; Parra-Martinez, Julio; Roiban, Radu; Ruf, Michael S.; Shen, Chia-Hsien; Solon, Mikhail P.; Zeng, Mao (2021-04-26). "Scattering Amplitudes and Conservative Binary Dynamics at ${\cal O}(G^4)$". Physical Review Letters 126 (17): 171601. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.171601. ISSN 0031-9007. PMID 33988437. 
  8. Monteiro, Ricardo; O'Connell, Donal; White, Chris D (2014). "Black holes and the double copy". Journal of High Energy Physics 2014 (12): 56. doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2014)056. Bibcode2014JHEP...12..056M. 

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