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Regular celestial amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-16 v2

Abstract

Conventional massless celestial amplitudes are distributional and fail to realize the celestial OPE -- most sharply in the non-MHV paradox, where OPEs predict nonzero celestial amplitudes with helicities +++-{+}{+}+ that are known to vanish at tree level. To resolve this, we introduce regular celestial amplitudes. We demonstrate that at tree-level, these amplitudes are non-distributional and, crucially, consistent with the celestial OPE. This suggests a revised dictionary: CCFT correlators are the regular, not conventional, celestial amplitudes.

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@article{arxiv.2512.05882,
  title  = {Regular celestial amplitudes},
  author = {Reiko Liu and Wen-Jie Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05882},
  year   = {2025}
}

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