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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