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Towards a Carrollian Description of Yang-Mills

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-14 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We provide a theory defined purely on null infinity that describes Yang-Mills in the Minkowski space bulk. The dynamical field of our model is the characteristic data of the bulk gauge field, and the action combines an electric branch Carrollian kinetic term with non-local interactions of MHV type that link different points on the celestial sphere. We explicitly show how this theory recovers all MHV and NMHV tree amplitudes in Yang-Mills, and outline how arbitrary tree amplitudes may be obtained from its Feynman diagram expansion. The detailed expression we find for the NMHV amplitude appears to be new.

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@article{arxiv.2604.09771,
  title  = {Towards a Carrollian Description of Yang-Mills},
  author = {Jeffrey Opreij and David Skinner and Hangzhi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.09771},
  year   = {2026}
}

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25 pages, 3 figures