published on April 10, 2024
Non-minimal coupling, negative null energy, and effective field theory
By Eleni-Alexandra Kontou
An Intriguing Puzzle and its Happy Resolution
Appears in collection : Damour Fest: Adventures in Gravitation
At the end of 2018, a result by Bern et al. on gravitational scattering at order G^3 raised an intriguing puzzle that got more and more embarrassing for about 20 months. Its eventual resolution made everyone, and particularly Thibault, happy. I will give a brief account of that amusing story.
