The classical super-phaserotation infrared triangle. Classical logarithmic soft theorem as conservation law in (scalar) QED

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Publication date 05-2025
Journal Journal of High Energy Physics
Article number 155
Volume | Issue number 2025 | 5
Number of pages 35
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute (WZI)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

The universality of the logarithmic soft photon theorem in four dimensions can be traced to an infinite-dimensional asymptotic symmetry which acts as a local phase rotation on matter as we have shown in [1]. Here we extend our earlier results for the charges associated to these superphaserotations to all orders in the coupling and prove that their conservation is exactly the classical logarithmic soft photon theorem discovered by Saha, Sahoo and Sen [2]. We furthermore generalize the formulae for the associated electromagnetic displacement memory and its tail from particles to scalar matter fields. This completes the classical superphaserotation infrared triangle.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2412.16149 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)155
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