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Multiparticle Contributions to the Celestial OPE

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-07-21 v2

Abstract

We start by defining two-particle operators that appear in celestial CFT. We then show how to compute their OPE coefficients with the known single-particle operators at tree level from multiparticle factorization channels, focusing on the leading contribution involving the two-particle states. These factorization channels only give us single-particle exchanges. To extract the multiparticle exchanges, we look at the MHV\overline{\rm MHV} gluon amplitudes and show how non-factorization channels contribute to two-particle terms in the single-helicity sector. This is a first step towards systematically computing the full celestial OPE.

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@article{arxiv.2402.18798,
  title  = {Multiparticle Contributions to the Celestial OPE},
  author = {Alfredo Guevara and Yangrui Hu and Sabrina Pasterski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.18798},
  year   = {2025}
}
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