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We introduce a novel method to compute gravitational wave amplitudes within the framework of effective field theory. By reinterpreting the Feynman diagram expansion as a Born series, our method offers several key advantages. It directly yields partial wave amplitudes, streamlining the matching with black hole perturbation theory. Long-distance gravitational interactions are unambiguously factorized from short-distance tidal effects, including dissipation, which are systematically incorporated via an in-in worldline effective action. Crucially, at every order in perturbation theory, integrals are expressed in terms of harmonic polylogarithms, enabling an end-to-end computation scalable to arbitrary orders. We illustrate the method with new predictions for scalar black hole Love numbers and their renormalization group equations to O(G^{7}).
Authors
- Giulia Isabella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-9595)
- Simon Caron-Huot (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7005-9652)
- Mikhail P. Solon
- Miguel Correia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6636-9570)
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- McGill University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Published
- 2025-11-06
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/qd3c-nfz6
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.48