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It is shown that there is a universal gravitational memory effect measurable by inertial detectors in even spacetime dimensions d ≥ 4. The effect falls off at large radius r as r3−d. Moreover this memory effect sits at one corner of an infrared triangle with the other two corners occupied by Weinberg’s soft graviton theorem and infinite-dimensional asymptotic symmetries.
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Pate, M., Raclariu, AM. & Strominger, A. Gravitational memory in higher dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 138 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2018)138
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