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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

We show how conformal partial waves (or conformal blocks) of spinor/tensor correlators can be related to each other by means of differential operators in four dimensional conformal field theories. We explicitly construct such differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

Shadow formalism is a technique in two-dimensional CFT allowing straightforward computation of conformal blocks in the limit of infinitely large central charge. We generalize the construction of shadow operator for superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Vladimir Belavin , Juan Ramos Cabezas , Boris Runov

Results are presented for the medium-induced, soft coherent radiation spectrum for all $2\to 2$ partonic channels in QCD, at leading-order in $\alpha_s$ but beyond leading logarithmic accuracy. The general formula is valid in the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-03 Greg Jackson , Stéphane Peigné , Kazuhiro Watanabe

We define and compute the four-dimensional thermal $n$-point conformal block in the projection channel using oscillator representations on $\mathbb{S}^1_\beta \times \mathbb{S}^3$. This is done by evaluating a class of integrals over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

The representation theories of the SU(2)$_k$-extended $N$=4 superconformal algebras (SCAs) with $arbitrary$ level $k$ are developed being based on their Feigin-Fuchs representations found recently by the present author. A basic unit of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Satoshi Matsuda

In this work, we develop the shadow formalism for two-dimensional Galilean conformal field theory (GCFT$_2$). We define the principal series representation of Galilean conformal symmetry group and find its relation with the Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 Bin Chen , Reiko Liu

A non-trivial consequence of the super-correlator/super-amplitude duality is that the integrand of the four-point correlation function of stress-tensor multiplets in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills contains a certain combination of n-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

We compute scalar three-point celestial amplitudes involving two and three massive scalars. The three-point coefficient of celestial amplitudes with two massive scalars contains a hypergeometric function, and the one with three massive…

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

Celestial scattering amplitudes for massless particles are Mellin transforms of momentum-space scattering amplitudes with respect to the energies of the external particles, and behave as conformal correlators on the celestial sphere.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Piotr Tourkine , Bin Zhu

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

A novel definition of holographic correlation functions on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space was recently introduced in arXiv:2301.01810 as the extrapolation of bulk time-ordered correlation functions to the celestial sphere. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Francesca Pacifico , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

Building on results in arXiv:2203.04255, we compute the correlator of four gluon light-ray operators in celestial CFT. We find that it is described by Fox H-functions and generalized I-functions of multiple variables. We also analyze…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Shounak De , Yangrui Hu , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

We study the four-gluon scattering amplitude in the high energy limit of QCD written in terms of its conformal expansion. We highlight the need to include both even and odd conformal spin contributions in order to map it to an iterative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Grigorios Chachamis , Agustín Sabio Vera

We study the celestial three-gluon amplitude in a dilaton background through the Mellin-Liouville formulation proposed by Stieberger, Taylor and Zhu (STZ). The original map contains an ambiguity in the identification of Liouville and Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Grzegorz Biskowski , Franco Ferrari , Marcin R. Piatek , Artur R. Pietrykowski

Celestial amplitude is a new reformulation of momentum space scattering amplitude and offers a promising way for flat holography. In this paper, we study the celestial amplitude in $\mathcal N=4$ Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory aiming at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Hongliang Jiang

Conformal blocks are the building blocks for correlation functions in conformal field theories. The four-point function is the most well-studied case. We consider conformal blocks for $n$-point correlation functions. For conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Vladimir Rosenhaus

The operator product expansion (OPE) on the celestial sphere of conformal primary gluons and gravitons is studied. Asymptotic symmetries imply recursion relations between products of operators whose conformal weights differ by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger , Ellis Ye Yuan

We provide a unified treatment of conformally soft Goldstone modes which arise when spin-one or spin-two conformal primary wavefunctions become pure gauge for certain integer values of the conformal dimension $\Delta$. This effort lands us…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Laura Donnay , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrea Puhm

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