Celestial dual of conformal gravity MHV amplitudes: an OPE analysis
Abstract
In an earlier paper [arXiv:2511.03669] we extracted the OPE of celestial CFT operator duals of positive helicity graviton and scalar particles from the Mellin transformed relevant MHV amplitudes of conformal gravity, realised as the bosonic subsector of the Berkovits-Witten theory. A soft theorem analysis of bulk MHV amplitudes established that this conformal gravity exhibits a chiral symmetry on the celestial sphere with the associated current algebra, which acquires a non-trivial central extension, unlike the Einstein gravity. Here we construct a chiral CFT free-field realisation of the relevant chiral algebra in terms of three free scalars () and three ghost pairs, and propose vertex operators for the positive-helicity graviton primary as well as the scalar primary , and compute their OPEs. These OPEs reproduce exactly those obtained from the bulk conformal gravity MHV amplitudes, providing a concrete celestial dual description of its MHV sector.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.05363,
title = {Celestial dual of conformal gravity MHV amplitudes: an OPE analysis},
author = {Nirmal Ghorai and Partha Paul and Nemani V. Suryanarayana},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05363},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
17 pages plus 4 Appendices