Celestial Klein Spaces
Abstract
We consider the analytic continuation of -dimensional Minkowski space (with and even) to -signature, and study the conformal boundary of the resulting "Klein space". Unlike the familiar signature, now the null infinity has only one connected component. The spatial and timelike infinities ( and ) are quotients of generalizations of AdS spaces to non-standard signature. Together, and combine to produce the topological boundary as an fibration over a null segment. The highest weight states (the -primaries) and descendants of with integral weights give rise to natural scattering states. One can also define -primaries which are highest weight with respect to a signature-mixing version of the Cartan-Weyl generators that leave a point on the celestial fixed. These correspond to massless particles that emerge at that point and are Mellin transforms of plane wave states.
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@article{arxiv.2110.06180,
title = {Celestial Klein Spaces},
author = {Budhaditya Bhattacharjee and Chethan Krishnan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06180},
year = {2025}
}
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42 pages, V3: published version