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Shadow Celestial Amplitude

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-02-22 v2

Abstract

We study scattering amplitudes in the shadow conformal primary basis, which satisfies the same defining properties as the original conformal primary basis and has many advantages over it. The shadow celestial amplitudes exhibit locality manifestly on the celestial sphere, and behave like correlation functions in conformal field theory under the operator product expansion (OPE) limit. We study the OPE limits for three-point shadow celestial amplitude, and general 2n22\to n-2 shadow celestial amplitudes from a large class of Feynman diagrams. In particular, we compute the conformal block expansion of the ss-channel four-point shadow celestial amplitude of massless scalars at tree-level, and show that the expansion coefficients factorize as products of OPE coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2210.04725,
  title  = {Shadow Celestial Amplitude},
  author = {Chi-Ming Chang and Wei Cui and Wen-Jie Ma and Hongfei Shu and Hao Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.04725},
  year   = {2023}
}