From Twistors to Gravitational Scattering (2/2)

par Prof. Lionel Mason (University of Oxford & IHES)

mercredi 8 mars 2023, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Paris

Amphithéâtre Léon Motchane (IHES)

 

Lecture 2: A Twistor Formula for the Tree-Level Gravity S-Matrix

This lecture will obtain a compact twistor formula for the full tree-level gravitational S-matrix beyond the self-dual sector.  It uses an extension of the complex geometry of twistor space of the previous lecture.  In the final formula, all integrations are saturated against delta functions yielding a sum of residues.  These depend on the n momenta and polarization vectors of associated gravity linear waves.

Supported by the "2021 Balzan Prize for Gravitation: Physical and Astrophysical Aspects", awarded to Thibault Damour

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