Semiclassical Virasoro Symmetry of the Quantum Gravity S-Matrix

Abstract

It is shown that the tree-level S-matrix for quantum gravity in four-dimensional Minkowski space has a Virasoro symmetry which acts on the conformal sphere at null infinity.

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