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Celestial Operator Products of Gluons and Gravitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-10-28 v2

Abstract

The operator product expansion (OPE) on the celestial sphere of conformal primary gluons and gravitons is studied. Asymptotic symmetries imply recursion relations between products of operators whose conformal weights differ by half-integers. It is shown, for tree-level Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, that these recursion relations are so constraining that they completely fix the leading celestial OPE coefficients in terms of the Euler beta function. The poles in the beta functions are associated with conformally soft currents.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07424,
  title  = {Celestial Operator Products of Gluons and Gravitons},
  author = {Monica Pate and Ana-Maria Raclariu and Andrew Strominger and Ellis Ye Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07424},
  year   = {2019}
}

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35 pages, reference added