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Celestial holography promisingly reformulates the scattering amplitude holographically in terms of celestial conformal field theory living at null infinity. Recently, an infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra was discovered in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Hongliang Jiang

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

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

Celestial holography is a new way to understand flat-space amplitudes. Self-dual theories, due to their nice properties, are good subjects to study celestial holography. In this paper, we developed a new formula to calculate the celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-20 Pratik Chattopadhyay , Yi-Xiao Tao

We highlight and clarify the connection between several ideas and self-dual theories: (a) the operator product expansion (OPE) associativity in celestial conformal field theory (CCFT); (b) the vanishing of tree-level amplitudes; (c) the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Mattia Serrani

We study scattering amplitudes in the shadow conformal primary basis, which satisfies the same defining properties as the original conformal primary basis and has many advantages over it. The shadow celestial amplitudes exhibit locality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Chi-Ming Chang , Wei Cui , Wen-Jie Ma , Hongfei Shu , Hao Zou

We explore the connection between the operator product expansion (OPE) in the boundary and worldsheet conformal field theories in the context of AdS$_{d+1}$/CFT$_d$ correspondence. Considering single trace scalar operators in the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Sudip Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

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 construct the operator product expansions (OPE) of the chiral primary operators in the worldsheet theory for strings on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4. As an interesting application, we will use the worldsheet OPEs to derive a recursion relation for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Ingo Kirsch , Tim Wirtz

We transform the one-loop four-point type $\mathrm{I}$ open superstring gluon amplitude to correlation functions on the celestial sphere including both the (non-)orientable planar and non-planar sector. This requires a Mellin transform with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Daniel Bockisch

We compute the celestial correlators corresponding to tree-level 5-gluon amplitudes in the type I superstring theory. Since celestial correlation functions are obtained by integrating over the full range of energies, there is no obvious…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Lina Castiblanco , Gaston Giribet , Gabriel Marin , Francisco Rojas

Celestial holography provides a promising avenue to studying bulk scattering in flat spacetime from the perspective of boundary celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). A key ingredient in connecting the two sides is the celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Hongliang Jiang

In this article, we initiate the study of operator product expansions (OPEs) for the sine-Gordon model. For simplicity, we focus on the model below the first threshold of collapse ($\beta<4\pi$) and on the singular terms in OPEs of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Alex Karrila , Tuomas Virtanen , Christian Webb

Motivated by applications to the study of ultracold atomic gases near the unitarity limit, we investigate the structure of the operator product expansion (OPE) in non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs). The main tool used in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Walter D. Goldberger , Zuhair U. Khandker , Siddharth Prabhu

We study tree-level celestial amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory -- Mellin transforms of multi-gluon scattering amplitudes that convert them into the correlators of conformal primary fields on two-dimensional celestial sphere. By using purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Tomasz R. Taylor

We study two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory describing four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity/Yang-Mills systems and show that the underlying symmetry is a supersymmetric generalization of BMS symmetry. We construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

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

The purpose of this paper is to study the holomorphic multicollinear limit of (celestial) amplitudes and use it to further investigate the double residue condition for (hard celestial) amplitudes and the celestial operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-01 Adam Ball , Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

The operator product expansion (OPE) in 4d (super)conformal field theory is of broad interest, for both formal and phenomenological applications. In this paper, we use conformal perturbation theory to study the OPE of nearly-free fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel Green , David Shih

Some of the operator product expansions (OPEs) between the lowest $SO(4)$ singlet higher spin-$2$ multiplet of spins $(2, \frac{5}{2}, \frac{5}{2}, \frac{5}{2}, \frac{5}{2}, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, \frac{7}{2}, \frac{7}{2}, \frac{7}{2},…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Changhyun Ahn , Man Hea Kim , Jinsub Paeng