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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}).

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Physical Review Letters
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2025-11-06
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https://doi.org/10.1103/qd3c-nfz6
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4
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Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Giulia Isabella, Simon Caron-Huot, Mikhail P. Solon, Miguel Correia
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Physical Review Letters
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Giulia Isabella, Simon Caron-Huot, Mikhail P. Solon, Miguel Correia
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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}).

Physical Review LettersVol. 135(19)
University of California, Los Angeles (US), McGill University (CA)
Openalex Percentile: Top 3%
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
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Gravitational Wave Scattering via the Born Series: Scalar Tidal Matching to <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi mathvariant="script">O</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:msup> < — Giulia Isabella, Simon Caron-Huot, et al. · Physical Review Letters (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS