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We determine tree level, all-order celestial operator product expansions (OPEs) of gluons and gravitons in the maximally helicity violating (MHV) sector. We start by obtaining the all-order collinear expansions of MHV amplitudes using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Lecheng Ren , Anders Schreiber , Atul Sharma , Diandian Wang

What is the boundary holographic dual of S-duality for gauge theories in asymptotically flat space-times? Celestial amplitudes, by virtue of exhibiting holographic properties of the S-matrix, appear well-suited for studying this question.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Tristan McLoughlin , Nathan Moynihan , Andrea Puhm

We compute the operator product expansions of gluons and gravitons in celestial CFT from the worldsheet OPE of vertex operators of four-dimensional ambitwistor string theories. Remarkably, the worldsheet OPE localizes on the short-distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

In an earlier paper [arXiv:2511.03669] we extracted the OPE of celestial CFT operator duals of positive helicity graviton and scalar particles from the Mellin transformed relevant MHV amplitudes of conformal gravity, realised as the bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Nirmal Ghorai , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We compute one-loop corrections to the OPE of gluons in the celestial conformal field theory corresponding to Yang-Mills coupled to arbitrary matter. We exploit universal hard/soft factorization to derive an IR finite OPE for the hard gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Luke Lippstreu , Lecheng Ren , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

This work is motivated by recent developments in celestial holography. In \cite{CP}, the authors interpreted QCD collinear singularities in terms of operator product expansions in a two-dimensional CFT. We reformulate the algebraic…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Charles Igel , Jeremy Mancinas , Juan Villarreal

In this paper we study the BMS symmetry of the celestial OPE of two positive helicity gravitons in Einstein theory in four dimensions. The celestial OPE is obtained by Mellin transforming the scattering amplitude in the (holomorphic)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Riccardo Gonzo

Recent attempts at the construction of holography for asymptotically flat spacetimes have taken two different routes. Celestial holography, involving a two dimensional (2d) CFT dual to 4d Minkowski spacetime, has generated novel results in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Arjun Bagchi , Shamik Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sudipta Dutta

On-shell kinematics for gluon scattering can be parametrized with points on the celestial sphere; in the limit where these points collide, it is known that tree-level gluon scattering amplitudes exhibit an operator product expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

In this note, we show that tree-level MHV $n$-graviton amplitudes, when analytically continued to Klein space, can be holographically generated as the correlators of a two-dimensional conformal field theory ($2d$ CFT) in the large-$N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Igor Mol

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

The structure of tree-level scattering amplitudes for collinear massless bosons is studied beyond their leading splitting function behavior. These near-collinear limits at sub-leading order are best studied using the Cachazo-He-Yuan (CHY)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Dhritiman Nandan , Jan Plefka , Wadim Wormsbecher

In this note, we continue our study of Liouville theory and celestial amplitudes by deriving a set of partial differential equations governing the $n$-point MHV celestial amplitudes for gluons and gravitons, parametrised by the Liouville…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Igor Mol

In the bottom-up approach to celestial holography, it is tempting to define celestial amplitudes by transforming momentum-space amplitudes order by order in perturbation theory. We test this prescription in the exactly solvable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Adam Tropper

In this paper, we study the four-point celestial leaf amplitudes of massless scalar and MHV gluon scattering. These leaf amplitudes are non-distributional decompositions of the celestial amplitudes associated with a hyperbolic foliation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Raju Mandal , Sagnik Misra , Partha Paul , Baishali Roy

We elaborate on the proposal of flat holography in which four-dimensional physics is encoded in two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The symmetry underlying CCFT is the extended BMS symmetry of (asymptotically) flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We propose a new program for computing a certain integrand of scattering amplitudes of four-dimensional gauge theories which we call the \textit{form factor integrand}, starting from 6d holomorphic theories on twistor space. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-03 Kevin Costello , Natalie M. Paquette

We provide dramatic evidence that `Mellin space' is the natural home for correlation functions in CFTs with weakly coupled bulk duals. In Mellin space, CFT correlators have poles corresponding to an OPE decomposition into `left' and `right'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Joao Penedones , Suvrat Raju , Balt C. van Rees

We study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green-Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincar\'e symmetry, but no 2d superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam Tropper

We show how to formulate celestial twistor amplitudes in Yang-Mills (YM) and gravity. This is motivated by a refined holographic correspondence between the twistor transform and the light transform in the boundary Lorentzian CFT. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Graham R. Brown , Joshua Gowdy , Bill Spence