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Celestial Yang-Mills Amplitudes and D=4 Conformal Blocks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-19 v1

Abstract

We discuss the properties of recently constructed "single-valued" celestial four-gluon amplitudes. We show that the amplitude factorizes into the "current" part and the "scalar" part. The current factor is given by the group-dependent part of the Wess-Zumino-Witten correlator of four holomorphic currents with a non-vanishing level of Ka\v{c}-Moody algebra. The scalar factor can be expressed in terms of a complex integral of the Koba-Nielsen form, similar to the integrals describing four-point correlators in Coulomb gas models and, more generally, in the infinite central charge limit of Liouville theory. The scalar part can be also obtained by a dimensional reduction of a single D=4 conformal block and the shadow block from Minkowski space to the celestial sphere.

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@article{arxiv.2206.08979,
  title  = {Celestial Yang-Mills Amplitudes and D=4 Conformal Blocks},
  author = {Wei Fan and Angelos Fotopoulos and Stephan Stieberger and Tomasz R. Taylor and Bin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08979},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages

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