Mass/electric versus NUT/magnetic charges: duality from scattering amplitudes in and for all bosonic spins
R Monteiro, L Ren, D Siretanu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22938, 2026 - arxiv.org
R Monteiro, L Ren, D Siretanu
arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.22938, 2026•arxiv.orgWe revisit Kerr-NUT metrics and related spin-$ s $ fields in $ D\geq4 $, and study their
associated scattering amplitudes. Starting in position space, we highlight the interpretation
of mass and (multiple) NUT charges as being associated to distinct solutions of the rotation-
deformed radial equation, which is made explicit in Cartesian multi-Kerr-Schild coordinates.
This interpretation extends to electromagnetism with magnetic-type charges, and also
extends to higher-spin counterparts, in accordance with the classical double or multi copy …
associated scattering amplitudes. Starting in position space, we highlight the interpretation
of mass and (multiple) NUT charges as being associated to distinct solutions of the rotation-
deformed radial equation, which is made explicit in Cartesian multi-Kerr-Schild coordinates.
This interpretation extends to electromagnetism with magnetic-type charges, and also
extends to higher-spin counterparts, in accordance with the classical double or multi copy …
We revisit Kerr-NUT metrics and related spin- fields in , and study their associated scattering amplitudes. Starting in position space, we highlight the interpretation of mass and (multiple) NUT charges as being associated to distinct solutions of the rotation-deformed radial equation, which is made explicit in Cartesian multi-Kerr-Schild coordinates. This interpretation extends to electromagnetism with magnetic-type charges, and also extends to higher-spin counterparts, in accordance with the classical double or multi copy. We then establish a notion of ``electric-magnetic" duality in higher dimensions, relating mass/electric to NUT/magnetic charges, which generalises the case in a novel manner. For , this involves the choice where the multiple magnetic charges are equal. The duality is revealed in momentum space, by the 3-point scattering amplitudes that generate the solutions. For all spins, these amplitudes are constructed from a spin-raising operator and take the form acting on a scalar seed. The scalar seed of the electric sector is dual to that of the magnetic sector: where the former's rotation dependence resums to a Bessel function , the latter resums to a Bessel function . Finally, we explore the notion of self-duality that arises from this picture. Studying the classical amplitudes that determine leading-order scattering, we find no evidence of a higher-dimensional analogue of the integrability of self-dual gravity.
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