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$w_{1+\infty}$ and Carrollian Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-07 v3

Abstract

In a 1+21+2D Carrollian conformal field theory, the Ward identities of the two local fields S0+S^+_0 and S1+S^+_1, entirely built out of the Carrollian conformal stress-tensor, contain respectively up to the leading and the subleading positive helicity soft graviton theorems in the 1+31+3D asymptotically flat space-time. This work investigates how the subsubleading soft graviton theorem can be encoded into the Ward identity of a Carrollian conformal field S2+S^+_2. The operator product expansion (OPE) S2+S2+S^+_2S^+_2 is constructed using general Carrollian conformal symmetry principles and the OPE commutativity property, under the assumption that any time-independent, non-Identity field that is mutually local with S0+,S1+,S2+S^+_0,S^+_1,S^+_2 has positive Carrollian scaling dimension. It is found that, for this OPE to be consistent, another local field S3+S^+_3 must automatically exist in the theory. The presence of an infinite tower of local fields Sk3+S^+_{k\geq3} is then revealed iteratively as a consistency condition for the S2+Sk1+S^+_2S^+_{k-1} OPE. The general Sk+Sl+S^+_kS^+_l OPE is similarly obtained and the symmetry algebra manifest in this OPE is found to be the Kac-Moody algebra of the wedge sub-algebra of w1+w_{1+\infty}. The Carrollian time-coordinate plays the central role in this purely holographic construction. The 2D Celestial conformally soft graviton primary Hk(z,zˉ)H^k(z,\bar{z}) is realized to be contained in the Carrollian conformal primary S1k+(t,z,zˉ)S_{1-k}^+(t,z,\bar{z}). Finally, the existence of the infinite tower of fields Sk+S^+_{k} is shown to be directly related to an infinity of positive helicity soft graviton theorems.

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@article{arxiv.2308.03673,
  title  = {$w_{1+\infty}$ and Carrollian Holography},
  author = {Amartya Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.03673},
  year   = {2024}
}

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