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Celestial Amplitudes: Conformal Partial Waves and Soft Limits

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-23 v1

Abstract

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless four-point scalar and gluon celestial amplitudes such as conformal partial wave decomposition, crossing relations and optical theorem. As a byproduct, we derive the analog of the single and double soft limits for all gluon celestial amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.1904.10940,
  title  = {Celestial Amplitudes: Conformal Partial Waves and Soft Limits},
  author = {Dhritiman Nandan and Anders Schreiber and Anastasia Volovich and Michael Zlotnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.10940},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure

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