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A Shorter Path to Celestial Currents

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-14 v1

Abstract

Here we consider what happens when we lift a codimension-1 slice of the celestial sphere to a codimension-1 slice of the bulk spacetime in a manner that respects our ability to quotient by the null generators of I±\mathcal{I}^\pm to get to our codimension-2 hologram. The contour integrals of the 2D currents for the celestial symmetries lift to the standard boundary integrals of the 2-form generators for the gauge theory and celestial Ward identities follow directly from Noether's theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2201.06805,
  title  = {A Shorter Path to Celestial Currents},
  author = {Sabrina Pasterski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.06805},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages

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