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Celestial Superamplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-26 v2

Abstract

We study celestial amplitudes in (super) Yang-Mills theory using a parameterisation of the spinor helicity variables where their overall phase is not fixed by the little group action. In this approach the spin constraint hhˉ=Jh-\bar{h}=J for celestial conformal primaries emerges naturally from a new Mellin transform, and the action of conformal transformations on celestial amplitudes is derived. Applying this approach to N ⁣= ⁣4\mathcal{N}\!=\!4 super Yang-Mills, we show how the appropriate definition of on-shell superspace coordinates leads naturally to a formulation of chiral celestial superamplitudes and a representation of the generators of the four-dimensional superconformal algebra on the celestial sphere, which by construction annihilate all tree-level celestial superamplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2105.10263,
  title  = {Celestial Superamplitudes},
  author = {Andreas Brandhuber and Graham R. Brown and Joshua Gowdy and Bill Spence and Gabriele Travaglini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.10263},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

27 pages; Minor typos corrected, references added, version accepted to Phys. Rev. D