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We investigate the principles of quantum field theory using a stiff de Sitter space. We demonstrate that a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean AdS geometry can produce the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Sayantan Choudhury

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

We explore a class of effective field theory models of cosmic acceleration involving a metric and a single scalar field. These models can be obtained by starting with a set of ultralight pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons whose couplings to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-16 Jolyon K. Bloomfield , Eanna E. Flanagan

Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be recast as correlators of conformal primary operators in a putative holographic CFT$_d$ by working in a basis of boost eigenstates instead of momentum eigenstates. It has been shown previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Prahar Mitra

A two-dimensional CFT dual to a semiclassical theory of gravity in three dimensions must have a large central charge $c$ and a sparse low energy spectrum. This constrains the OPE coefficients and density of states of the CFT via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Jeevan Chandra , Scott Collier , Thomas Hartman , Alexander Maloney

We revisit the standard construction of the celestial stress tensor as a shadow of the subleading conformally soft graviton. In its original formulation there is an obstruction to reproducing the expected TT OPE in the double soft limit. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Shamik Banerjee , Sabrina Pasterski

We determine tree level, all-order celestial operator product expansions (OPEs) of gluons and gravitons in the maximally helicity violating (MHV) sector. We start by obtaining the all-order collinear expansions of MHV amplitudes using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Lecheng Ren , Anders Schreiber , Atul Sharma , Diandian Wang

We provide dramatic evidence that `Mellin space' is the natural home for correlation functions in CFTs with weakly coupled bulk duals. In Mellin space, CFT correlators have poles corresponding to an OPE decomposition into `left' and `right'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Joao Penedones , Suvrat Raju , Balt C. van Rees

In this paper, we study the implications of bulk locality on the celestial amplitude. In the context of the four-point amplitude, the fact that the bulk S-matrix factorizes locally in poles of Mandelstam variables is reflected in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-01 Chi-Ming Chang , Yu-tin Huang , Zi-Xun Huang , Wei Li

Carrollian Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have been proposed as co-dimension one holographic duals to asymptotically flat spacetimes as opposed to Celestial CFTs which are co-dimension two. In this paper, drawing inspiration from Celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Arjun Bagchi , Prateksh Dhivakar , Sudipta Dutta

We investigate the scalar perturbations and the possible strong coupling issues of $f(T)$ around a cosmological background, applying the effective field theory (EFT) approach. We revisit the generalized EFT framework of modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Yu-Min Hu , Yaqi Zhao , Xin Ren , Bo Wang , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

Loop corrections in QED and gravity have recently been conjectured to give rise to an infinite tower of logarithmic soft theorems governing the universal low-energy behavior of photons and gravitons. We explore the implications of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 Sangmin Choi , Ameya Kadhe , Andrea Puhm

We present a novel approach to classify supersymmetric effective field theories (EFTs) whose scattering amplitudes exhibit enhanced soft limits. These enhancements arise due to non-linearly realised symmetries on the Goldstone modes of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Diederik Roest , David Stefanyszyn , Pelle Werkman

Low multiplicity celestial amplitudes of gluons and gravitons tend to be distributional in the celestial coordinates $z,\bar z$. We provide a new systematic remedy to this situation by studying celestial amplitudes in a basis of light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Atul Sharma

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

Exploiting the analytic properties of the scattering amplitude, we provide an alternative but equivalent definition of the standard Mellin transform used to obtain celestial correlation functions. From this representation, we identify a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Eduardo Casali , Riccardo Giordana Pozzi

We present a systematic study of holographic correlators in a vast array of SCFTs with non-maximal superconformal symmetry. These theories include 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs from D3-branes near F-theory singularities, 5d Seiberg exceptional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Luis F. Alday , Connor Behan , Pietro Ferrero , Xinan Zhou

We study constraints coming from the modular invariance of the partition function of two-dimensional conformal field theories. We constrain the spectrum of CFTs in the presence of holomorphic and anti-holomorphic currents using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-05 Jin-Beom Bae , Sungjay Lee , Jaewon Song

We compute the Mellin transforms of various two-dimensional integrable $S$-matrices, providing the first explicit, non-perturbative realizations of celestial CFT. In two dimensions, the Mellin transform is simply the Fourier transform in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Daniel Kapec , Adam Tropper

The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE coefficients of local operators. To shed light on this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Connor Behan