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We start by constructing a conformally covariant improvement of the celestial light transform which keeps track of the mixing between incoming and outgoing states under finite Lorentz transformations in $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$. We then compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Carmen Jorge-Diaz , Sabrina Pasterski , Atul Sharma

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

In this paper we evaluate the modified celestial amplitude for gravitons and gluons, as defined in arXiv:1801.10171[hep-th]. We find that the modified (tree) amplitude is finite for gravitons in Einstein gravity. The modified amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Pranjal Pandey , Arnab Priya Saha

We study the celestial description of the $O(N)$ sigma model in the large $N$ limit as introduced by Coleman, Jackiw and Politzer. Focusing on three dimensions, we analyze the implications of a UV complete, all-loop order 4-point amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Diego García-Sepúlveda , Alfredo Guevara , Justin Kulp , Jingxiang Wu

Both celestial and momentum space amplitudes in four dimensions are beset by divergences resulting from spacetime translation and sometimes scale invariance. In this paper we consider a (linearized) marginal deformation of the celestial CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Eduardo Casali , Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger

We study celestial amplitudes in string theory at one-loop. Celestial amplitudes describe scattering processes of boost eigenstates and relate to amplitudes in the more standard basis of momentum eigenstates through a Mellin transform. They…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-10 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet , Hernán González , Andrea Puhm , Francisco Rojas

Soft theorems in gauge theory and gravity encode the universal properties of scattering amplitudes as the zero frequency limit of one or more external states is approached. When the participating particles are treated in the massless limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-15 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

We study the factorization of soft and collinear singularities in dimensionally-regularized fixed-angle scattering amplitudes in massless gauge theories. Our factorization is based on replacing the hard massless partons by light-like Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-19 Einan Gardi , Lorenzo Magnea

At leading order, the $S$-matrices in QED and gravity are known to factorise, providing unambiguous determinations of the parts divergent due to infrared contributions. The soft $S$-matrices defined in this fashion are shown to be defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-17 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

These notes consist of 3 lectures on celestial holography given at the Pre-Strings school 2021. We start by reviewing how semiclassically, the subleading soft graviton theorem implies an enhancement of the Lorentz symmetry of scattering in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Ana-Maria Raclariu

We demonstrate that loop integrands of (super-)gravity scattering amplitudes possess surprising properties in the ultraviolet (UV) region. In particular, we study the scaling of multi-particle unitarity cuts for asymptotically large momenta…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 Alex Edison , Enrico Herrmann , Julio Parra-Martinez , Jaroslav Trnka

We reformulate the scattering amplitudes of 4D flat space gauge theory and gravity in the language of a 2D CFT on the celestial sphere. The resulting CFT structure exhibits an OPE constructed from 4D collinear singularities, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-16 Clifford Cheung , Anton de la Fuente , Raman Sundrum

We construct an infinite class of new ultraviolet-complete four-graviton scattering amplitudes that reduce to Einstein gravity at low energies, vanish at high energies, are meromorphic, and exhibit a triple-product structure ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Yu-tin Huang , Grant N. Remmen

We present the first computation of three-point celestial amplitudes in Minkowski space of massless scalars, photons, gluons, and gravitons. Such amplitudes were previously considered to be zero in the literature because the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Chi-Ming Chang , Wen-Jie Ma

In this paper we compute the celestial operator product expansion between two outgoing positive helicity gravitons in the self dual gravity. It has been shown that the self dual gravity is a $ w_{1+\infty} $-invariant theory whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Shamik Banerjee , Harshal Kulkarni , Partha Paul

We re-examine positivity bounds on the $2\to2$ scattering of identical massless real scalars with a novel perspective on how these bounds can be used to constrain the spectrum of UV theories. We propose that the entire space of consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Justin Berman , Henriette Elvang , Nicholas Geiser , Loki L. Lin

The novel idea is that the undergoing accelerated expansion of the universe happens due to infrared quantum gravity modifications at intermediate astrophysical scales of galaxies or galaxy clusters, within the framework of Asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Fotios K. Anagnostopoulos , Georgios Kofinas , Vasilios Zarikas

We transform superstring scattering amplitudes into the correlation functions of primary conformal fields on two-dimensional celestial sphere. The points on celestial sphere are associated to the asymptotic directions of (light-like)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

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

Soft current algebras capture the infrared structure of scattering in asymptotically flat spacetimes, but an analogous algebraic description of finite-energy dynamics has been missing. We uncover an infinite-dimensional hard current algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma