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Celestial soft currents at one-loop and their OPEs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-18 v1

Abstract

Conformally soft operators and their associated soft theorems on the celestial sphere encode the low energy behaviour of bulk scattering amplitudes. They lead to an infinite dimensional symmetry algebra of the celestial CFT at tree-level. In this paper, we introduce new operators in the celestial CFT in order to extend the definition of conformally soft currents to include one-loop effects. We then compute their OPEs with other operators in the theory. We also examine new subtleties that arise in defining OPEs of two conformally soft operators. We elucidate the connection between the new operators and loop corrected soft theorems in the bulk. Finally, we conclude by demonstrating how these operators fit into the framework of a logarithmic CFT.

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@article{arxiv.2403.10443,
  title  = {Celestial soft currents at one-loop and their OPEs},
  author = {Rishabh Bhardwaj and Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10443},
  year   = {2024}
}

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