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A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-29 v1

Abstract

It is shown that a 2D CFT consisting of a central charge cc Liouville theory, a chiral level one, rank NN Kac-Moody algebra and a weight 3/2-3/2 free fermion holographically generate 4D MHV tree-level scattering amplitudes. The correlators of this 2D CFT give directly the 4D leaf amplitudes associated to a single hyperbolic slice of flat space. The 4D celestial amplitudes arise in a large-NN and semiclassical large-cc limit, according to the holographic dictionary, as a translationally-invariant combination of leaf amplitudes. A step in the demonstration is showing that the semiclassical limit of Liouville correlators are given by contact AdS3_3 Witten diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.2403.18896,
  title  = {A Celestial Dual for MHV Amplitudes},
  author = {Walker Melton and Atul Sharma and Andrew Strominger and Tianli Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.18896},
  year   = {2024}
}

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11 pages

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