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Celestial Klein Spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-03-27 v3

Abstract

We consider the analytic continuation of (p+q)(p+q)-dimensional Minkowski space (with pp and qq even) to (p,q)(p,q)-signature, and study the conformal boundary of the resulting "Klein space". Unlike the familiar (+++..)(-+++..) signature, now the null infinity I{\mathcal I} has only one connected component. The spatial and timelike infinities (i0i^0 and ii') are quotients of generalizations of AdS spaces to non-standard signature. Together, I,i0{\mathcal I}, i^0 and ii' combine to produce the topological boundary Sp+q1S^{p+q-1} as an Sp1×Sq1S^{p-1} \times S^{q-1} fibration over a null segment. The highest weight states (the LL-primaries) and descendants of SO(p,q)SO(p,q) with integral weights give rise to natural scattering states. One can also define HH-primaries which are highest weight with respect to a signature-mixing version of the Cartan-Weyl generators that leave a point on the celestial Sp1×Sq1S^{p-1} \times S^{q-1} 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

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