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Celestial Recursion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-01-31 v1

Abstract

We examine the BCFW recursion relations for celestial amplitudes and how they inform the celestial bootstrap program. We start by recasting the celestial incarnation of the BCFW shift as a generalization of the action of familiar asymptotic symmetries on hard particles, before focusing on two limits: zz\to \infty and z0z\to 0. We then discuss how the celestial CFT data encodes the large-zz behavior determining which shifts are allowed, while the infinitesimal limit is tied to the celestial bootstrap program via the BG equations that constrain the MHV sector. The extension to super-BCFW is also presented. We close by remarking on several open questions for future study.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2208.11635,
  title  = {Celestial Recursion},
  author = {Yangrui Hu and Sabrina Pasterski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11635},
  year   = {2023}
}