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Soft Algebras for Leaf Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-02-07 v1

Abstract

Celestial MHV amplitudes are comprised of non-distributional leaf amplitudes associated to an AdS3_3 leaf of a foliation of flat spacetime. It is shown here that the leaf amplitudes are governed by the same infinite-dimensional soft `SS-algebra' as their celestial counterparts. Moreover, taking the soft limit of the smooth three-point MHV leaf amplitude yields a nondegenerate minus-minus two-point leaf amplitude. The two- and three-point MHV leaf amplitudes are used to compute the plus-minus-minus leaf operator product coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2402.04150,
  title  = {Soft Algebras for Leaf Amplitudes},
  author = {Walker Melton and Atul Sharma and Andrew Strominger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04150},
  year   = {2024}
}

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13 pages

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