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Loops on the Celestial Sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-04 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the effect of loop corrections to conformal correlators on the celestial sphere at null infinity. We first analyze finite one-loop celestial amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity. We then turn to our main focus: infrared divergent loop amplitudes in planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory. We compute the celestial one-loop amplitude in dimensional regularization and show that it can be recast as an operator acting on the celestial tree-level amplitude. This extends to any loop order and the re-summation of all planar loops enables us to write down an expression for the all-loop celestial amplitude. Finally, we show that the exponentiated all-loop expression given by the BDS formula gets promoted on the celestial sphere to an operator acting on the tree-level conformal correlation function, thus yielding, the celestial BDS formula.

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@article{arxiv.2009.07290,
  title  = {Loops on the Celestial Sphere},
  author = {Hernan A. Gonzalez and Andrea Puhm and Francisco Rojas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.07290},
  year   = {2021}
}

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18 pages. Version 2: typos corrected, comments added

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