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In this paper we systematically develop the flat/CFT holographic dictionary, building on AdS/CFT holography. After analysing the behaviour of scalar field modes on hyperbolic slices of Minkowski and performing the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-12 Zezhuang Hao , Marika Taylor

We propose a systematic approach to celestial holography in massless theories beginning by studying the implications of properly incorporating field configurations built using the eigenstates of central interest: massless conformal primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Wei Bu , Sean Seet

Celestial amplitudes obtained from Mellin transforming 4d momentum space scattering amplitudes contain distributional delta functions, hindering the application of conventional CFT techniques. In this paper, we propose to bypass this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Wei Bu , Sean Seet

This paper presents a systematic cataloging of the generators of celestial symmetries on phase space. Starting from the celestial OPEs, we first show how to extract a representation of the general-spin analog of the wedge subalgebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

We show that associativity of the tree-level OPE in a celestial CFT imposes constraints on the coupling constants of the corresponding bulk theory. These constraints are the same as those derived in arXiv:2111.11356 from the Jacobi identity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Lecheng Ren , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

Carrollian holography aims to express gravity in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime in terms of a dual three-dimensional Carrollian CFT living at null infinity. Carrollian amplitudes are massless scattering amplitudes written in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Lionel Mason , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

We investigate the constraints of crossing symmetry on CFT correlation functions. Four point conformal blocks are naturally viewed as functions on the upper-half plane, on which crossing symmetry acts by PSL(2,Z) modular transformations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Gim Seng Ng

Holography can provide a microscopic interpretation of a gravitational solution as corresponding to a particular CFT state: the asymptotic expansion in gravity encodes the expectation values of operators in the dual CFT state. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 Stefano Giusto , Sami Rawash , David Turton

Global conformal invariance determines the form of two and three-point functions of quasi-primary operators in a conformal field theory, and generates nontrivial relations between terms in the operator product expansion. These ideas are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Atreya Chatterjee , David A. Lowe

Celestial diamonds encode the global conformal multiplets of the conformally soft sector, elucidating the role of soft theorems, symmetry generators and Goldstone modes. Upon adding supersymmetry they stack into a pyramid. Here we treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Yorgo Pano , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrea Puhm

A naive celestial dictionary causes massless two-point functions to take the delta-function forms in the celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). We rectify the dictionary, involving the shadow transformation so that the two-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

The four-dimensional $S$-matrix is reconsidered as a correlator on the celestial sphere at null infinity. Asymptotic particle states can be characterized by the point at which they enter or exit the celestial sphere as well as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Laura Donnay , Andrea Puhm , Andrew Strominger

In this paper we continue to develop further our prescription [arXiv:1602.02962] to holographically compute the conformal partial waves of CFT correlation functions using the gravitational open Wilson network operators in the bulk. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Atanu Bhatta , Prashanth Raman , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

Carrollian holography is a framework for flat space holography, suggesting that gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime in $D$ dimensions is dual to a conformal Carrollian field theory in $D - 1$ dimensions living at null infinity. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Harshal Kulkarni , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

Four-dimensional all-loop amplitudes in QED and gravity exhibit universal Infrared (IR) singularities with a factorization structure. This structure is governed by tree amplitudes and a universal IR-divergent factor representing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Song He , Pujian Mao , Xin-Cheng Mao

We discuss universal properties of conformal field theories with holographic duals. A central feature of these theories is the existence of a low-lying sector of operators whose correlators factorize. We demonstrate that factorization can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Sheer El-Showk , Kyriakos Papadodimas

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

We compute scattering amplitudes involving one massive scalar and two, three, or four gravitons. We show that when the conformal dimension of the massive scalar is set to zero, the resulting celestial correlators depend {\it only} on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Adam Ball , Shounak De , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

We consider $\alpha$-heavy conformal operators in CFT$_2$ which dimensions grow as $h = O(c^\alpha)$ with $\alpha$ being non-negative rational number and conjecture that the large-$c$ asymptotics of the respective 4-point Virasoro conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 K. B. Alkalaev , P. E. Litvinov