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The tensionless string on AdS$_3$ is a laboratory to study different aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence. A particular question addressed in this paper is how the space-time symmetry algebra is encoded on the world-sheet. A natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Kiarash Naderi

In this article we use the sub$^n$-soft graviton theorems to construct the map $\Top$ from the spin-graded set of holomorphic functions on local celestial sphere patches to differential operators acting on the asymptotic data for massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Mathias Charbonnier , Javier Peraza

Strominger and collaborators recently proposed that soft theorems for gauge and gravity amplitudes can be interpreted as Ward identities of a 2d CFT at null infinity. In this paper, we will consider a specific realization of this CFT known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-01 Arthur E. Lipstein

We study detector operators measuring energy to a power $\Delta-2$ at null infinity in four-dimensional gauge theories and gravity. These operators transform as conformal primaries on the celestial sphere and provide a natural basis for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Hernán A. González , Jakob Salzer

We apply the average null energy condition to obtain upper bounds on the three-point function coefficients of stress tensors and a scalar operator, $\langle TT {\cal O } \rangle,$ in general CFTs. We also constrain the gravitational anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Clay Cordova , Juan Maldacena , Gustavo J. Turiaci

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Dhritiman Nandan , Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

We provide a concrete link between celestial amplitudes and cosmological correlators. We first construct a map from quantum field theories (QFTs) in $(D+2)$-dimensional Euclidean space to theories on the $(D+1)$-dimensional sphere, through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

We show the universal soft behavior of massless particles at the tree level by considering the operator product expansion of the soft vertex operator with the hard vertex operators. We find that after eliminating total derivative terms the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Sho Higuchi , Hikaru Kawai

This note clarifies and extends results on the complex SYK model to the solvable q = 2 case. We calculate the four point function OPE of fermions in the low energy CFT, implying the existence of a tower of integer-weight operators in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-18 Benjamin James Pethybridge

The operator product expansion in four-dimensional superconformal field theory is discussed. The OPE takes a particularly simple form for chiral operators, in $N=1$ and $N=2$, and for analytic operators, in $N=2$ and $N=4$. It is argued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 P. S. Howe , P. C. West

In this work, we fix the leading term in the operator algebra of light-transformed operators in the context of flat space holography. Starting with light-transformed graviton correlators, we show that the OPE obtained by taking the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu

Celestial amplitudes represent 4D scattering of particles in boost, rather than the usual energy-momentum, eigenstates and hence are sensitive to both UV and IR physics. We show that known UV and IR properties of quantum gravity translate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

It's well known that in conformal theories the two- and three-point functions of a subset of the local operators-the conformal primaries-suffice, via the operator product expansion (OPE), to determine all local correlation functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-01 Jean-François Fortin , Kenneth Intriligator , Andreas Stergiou

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of two identical scalar primary operators in the lightcone limit in a conformal field theory where a scalar is the operator with lowest twist. We see that in CFTs where both the stress tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Atanu Bhatta , Soham Ray

Celestial MHV amplitudes are comprised of non-distributional leaf amplitudes associated to an AdS$_3$ leaf of a foliation of flat spacetime. It is shown here that the leaf amplitudes are governed by the same infinite-dimensional soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-07 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

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 use the numerical conformal bootstrap in two dimensions to search for finite, closed sub-algebras of the operator product expansion (OPE), without assuming unitarity. We find the minimal models as special cases, as well as additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ilya Esterlis , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , David Ramirez

Gravitational shockwaves are insensitive to higher-curvature corrections in the action. Recent work found that the OPE coefficients of lowest-twist multi-stress-tensor operators, computed holographically in a planar black hole background,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang , Daliang Li

In (1+1)-d CFTs, the 4-point function on the plane can be mapped to the pillow geometry and thereby crossing symmetry gets translated into a modular property. We use these modular features to derive a universal asymptotic formula for OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Diptarka Das , Shouvik Datta , Sridip Pal

In a recent work, Ogawa et al. (2024) proposed a model for celestial conformal field theory (CFT) based on the $H_{3}^{+}$-Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) model. In this paper, we extend the model advanced by Ogawa et al. (2024),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Igor Mol