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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

The functional structure of celestial amplitudes as constrained by Poincar\'e symmetry is investigated in $2,3,$ and $4$-point cases for massless external particles of various spin, as well as massive external scalars. Functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-10 Y. T. Albert Law , Michael Zlotnikov

We consider the momentum-space 3-point correlators of currents, stress tensors and marginal scalar operators in general odd-dimensional conformal field theories. We show that the flat space limit of these correlators is spanned by gauge and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-22 Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein , Paul McFadden

Celestial amplitudes are multiple Mellin transforms w.r.t. conformal dimensions. For arbitrary multiplicity $n$ of massless states in sufficiently high space--time dimension $D$ we perform all Mellin integrations and find an associahedron…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Jin Dong , Stephan Stieberger

Motivated by recent work on the utility of Mellin space for representing conformal correlators in $AdS$/CFT, we study its suitability for representing dual conformal integrals of the type which appear in perturbative scattering amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Miguel F. Paulos , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

In conformal field theory (CFT), the four-point correlator is a fundamental object that encodes CFT properties, constrains CFT structures, and connects to the gravitational scattering amplitude in holography theory. However, the four-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chao Han , Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

We study conformal twist field four-point functions on a $\mathbb Z_N$ orbifold. We examine in detail the case $N=3$ and analyze theories obtained by replicated $N$-times a minimal model with central charge $c<1$. A fastly convergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Filiberto Ares , Raoul Santachiara , Jacopo Viti

We consider two-dimensional chiral, first-order conformal field theories governing maps from the Riemann sphere to the projective light cone inside Minkowski space -- the natural setting for describing conformal field theories in two fewer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Tim Adamo , Ricardo Monteiro , Miguel F. Paulos

Carrollian conformal field theory offers an alternative description of massless scattering amplitudes, that is holographic in nature. In an effort to build a framework that is both predictive and constraining, we construct operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Kevin Nguyen , Jakob Salzer

We establish the nonperturbative celestial optical theorem from the unitarity of $S$-matrix. This theorem provides a set of nonperturbative bootstrap equations of the conformal partial wave (CPW) coefficients. The celestial optical theorem…

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

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

A quantitative prediction of Conformal Field Theory (CFT), which relates the second moment of the energy-density correlator away from criticality to the value of the central charge, is verified in the sine-Gordon model. By exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Naón , Mariano Salvay

Gravity in $4d$ asymptotically flat spacetime constitutes the archetypal example of a gravitational system with leaky boundary conditions. Pursuing our analysis of [1], we argue that the holographic description of such a system requires the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-03 Laura Donnay , Adrien Fiorucci , Yannick Herfray , Romain Ruzziconi

We derive model-independent lower bounds on the stress tensor central charge C_T in terms of the operator content of a 4-dimensional Conformal Field Theory. More precisely, C_T is bounded from below by a universal function of the dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 Riccardo Rattazzi , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

This thesis aims at providing better understanding of the perturbative expansion of gauge theories with and without supersymmetry. At tree level, the BCFW recursion relations are analyzed with respect to their validity for general off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-30 Alexander Ochirov

Recently, with the help of Parisi-Sourlas supersymmetry an intriguing relation was found expressing the four-point scalar conformal block of a (d-2)-dimensional CFT in terms of a five-term linear combination of blocks of a d-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Sarah Hoback , Sarthak Parikh

Celestial amplitudes, obtained by applying Mellin transform and analytic continuation on "ordinary" amplitudes, have interesting properties which may provide useful insights on the underlying theory. Their analytic structures are thus of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Jiayin Gu , Ying-Ying Li , Lian-Tao Wang

I study constraints on fundamental physics emerging from consistency of a unitary, local and perturbative $S$-matrix in $4d$. For massless particles, some new constraints arising from consistent complex factorisation of $2\rightarrow 2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Timothy Trott

Celestial holography posits that the long-distance behavior of gauge and gravity theories is dictated by two-dimensional conformal field theories defined on the celestial sphere. For non-abelian gauge theories, this proposal is verified, to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lorenzo Magnea , Enrico Zunino

Using polarization spinor methods in conjunction with the superspace formalism, we construct 3-point superconformal invariants that are used to determine the form of 3-point correlators of spinning superfield operators in $\mathcal{N}=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Aditya Jain , Amin A. Nizami