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Gerardo Depaola

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Quantum graviton scattering with definite helicities in the null surface formulation, Part II: Third-order scattering and the exchange channels \author{C.~N.~Kozameh \and G.~O.~Depaola}

We derive the graviton scattering map in the null-surface formulation (NSF) through third order in perturbations of Minkowski spacetime. The rational structure of the exact NSF equations allows a recursive perturbative construction of the cut function, conformal factor, and geometric sources. At third order, matching future and past null-surface reconstructions determines the cubic correction $δa^{\mathrm{out}}_{3,λ}$ to the outgoing graviton operators. We then study the connected one-loop contribution from $δa^{\mathrm{out}}_3 δa^{\mathrm{out}}_3$. Delta functions enforce total three-momentum conservation and reduce internal integrations to a single loop momentum. The ultraviolet scaling is controlled by the radiative mode weight $ν(ω)=8π^2\sqrt{4πG}\,ω^{-3/2}$. As a result, each normalized vertex scales as $\mathcal{O}(K^{-2})$, yielding a radially convergent UV tail bounded by $\int^\infty dK/K^4$. The plane-wave kernel is therefore radially UV finite, while smooth wave packets define the physical domain of the operator distributions. Finally, the corrections preserve Hermitian conjugation and are compatible order by order with a unitary Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff representation of the asymptotic scattering map.

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Quantum graviton scattering with definite helicities in the null surface formulation

We develop a helicity-resolved description of quantum graviton scattering in the Null Surface Formulation (NSF) of gravity. Dynamical data are Bondi shear modes at null infinity ($\mathscr{I}$), and the metric is reconstructed from the cut function. Matching between $\mathscr{I}^+$ and $\mathscr{I}^-$ yields $Z_{\text{total}} = Z_{\text{cut}} + Z_{\text{cone}}$, where $Z_{\text{cut}}$ contains free shear data and $Z_{\text{cone}}$ is the nonlinear cone source solution--analogous to the scalar retarded-advanced relation with on-shell free-data differences. Using second-order NSF equations for $Z_2$ and $Ω_2$, we derive the second-order Bondi shear and outgoing operators $δa_{2,\pm}^{\text{out}}$. Written via on-shell phase-space data at $\mathscr{I}$, their kernels contain spin-weighted angular Green functions and 3D momentum constraints, with energy fixed by positive frequency. The quadratic cone source decomposes into normal-ordered sectors, allowing matrix elements to select distinct operator components. We obtain the $(2 \to 1)$ tail amplitude and $(2 \to 2)$ four-graviton matrix elements. The tail amplitude is generated by the two-annihilation sector, selecting helicities via the NSF kernels' spin-weight structure. For four-point scattering, products of two outgoing operators reconstruct spatial momentum conservation; 4D conservation is recovered by imposing the positive-energy on-shell Poincaré sector. This reproduces standard tree-level amplitudes, with Mandelstam poles arising from angular Green functions and helicity projections. This yields an intrinsically on-shell formulation of graviton scattering without off-shell bulk propagators, with celestial sphere spectral-angular distributions as natural observables.

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