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Celestial soft dressings from generalised Wilson lines

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-30 v2

Abstract

In this review article, we revisit the connection between dressing of scattering states in quantum electrodynamics by clouds of soft photons, and their dressing by (generalised) Wilson line operators. In particular, we show that the leading and subleading soft conformal dressings considered in the context of celestial holography can be straightforwardly obtained from generalised Wilson lines, and that this only requires knowledge of the asymptotic behaviour of the photon field near null and timelike infinity.

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@article{arxiv.2304.01250,
  title  = {Celestial soft dressings from generalised Wilson lines},
  author = {Kevin Nguyen and Alan Rios Fukelman and Chris D. White},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01250},
  year   = {2023}
}

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14 pages + appendices

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