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Conformal Block Expansion in Celestial CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-12 v1

Abstract

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary principal series, and then rewritten as a sum over 2D conformal blocks via contour deformation. The conformal blocks include intermediate exchanges of spinning light-ray states, as well as scalar states with positive integer conformal weights. The conformal block prefactors are found as expected to be quadratic in the celestial OPE coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2104.13432,
  title  = {Conformal Block Expansion in Celestial CFT},
  author = {Alexander Atanasov and Walker Melton and Ana-Maria Raclariu and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.13432},
  year   = {2022}
}

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28 pages, 1 figure

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