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Scattering at Planckian Energies

Herman Verlinde, Erik Verlinde

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9110017

Abstract

We give a systematic analysis of forward scattering in 3+1-dimensional quantum gravity, at center of mass energies comparable or larger than the Planck energy. We show that quantum gravitational effects in this kinematical regime are described by means of a topological field theory. We find that the scattering amplitudes display a universal behaviour very similar to two dimensional string amplitudes, thereby recovering results obtained previously by 't Hooft. Finally, we discuss the two-particle process in some detail.

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