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On Sugawara construction on Celestial Sphere

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-10-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Conformally soft gluons are conserved currents of the Celestial Conformal Field Theory (CCFT) and generate a Kac-Moody algebra. We study celestial amplitudes of Yang-Mills theory, which are Mellin transforms of gluon amplitudes and take the double soft limit of a pair of gluons. In this manner we construct the Sugawara energy-momentum tensor of the CCFT. We verify that conformally soft gauge bosons are Virasoro primaries of the CCFT under the Sugawara energy-momentum tensor. The Sugawara tensor though does not generate the correct conformal transformations for hard states. In Einstein-Yang- Mills (EYM) theory, we consider an alternative construction of the energy-momentum tensor, similar to the double copy construction which relates gauge theory amplitudes with gravity ones. This energy momentum tensor has the correct properties to generate conformal transformations for both soft and hard states. We extend this construction to supertranslations.

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@article{arxiv.2005.10666,
  title  = {On Sugawara construction on Celestial Sphere},
  author = {Wei Fan and Angelos Fotopoulos and Stephan Stieberger and Tomasz R. Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.10666},
  year   = {2020}
}

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39 pages

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