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We explore the celestial holography proposal for non-trivial asymptotically flat backgrounds including the Coulomb field of a static and spinning point charge, their gravitational counterparts described by the Schwarzschild and Kerr…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-27 Riccardo Gonzo , Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm

We analyze conformal field theory 4-point functions of the form A ~ O_1(x_1) O_2(x_2) O_1(x_3) O_2(x_4), where the operators O_i are scalar primaries. We show that, in the Lorentzian regime, the limit x_1 -> x_3 is dominated by the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-10-06 Lorenzo Cornalba

We further develop celestial Mellin amplitudes arXiv:2412.11992 to capture the exchange of particles with spin. For massless external scalar fields, we derive closed-form celestial Mellin amplitudes for a spin-1 and spin-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Sébastien Malherbe , Paolo Pergola , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

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

The four-dimensional (4D) Lorentz group $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ acts as the two-dimensional (2D) global conformal group on the celestial sphere at infinity where asymptotic 4D scattering states are specified. Consequent similarities of 4D flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Sabrina Pasterski , Shu-Heng Shao , Andrew Strominger

We illustrate the power and efficiency of a recently uncovered Mellin-space approach to AdS/CFT correlation functions by providing a universal formula for the 4-scalar graviton-exchange Witten diagram, for arbitrary CFT-dual scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-20 Gregory Giecold

We show that, given a two-dimensional realization of the celestial OPE in self-dual Yang-Mills, we can find a scalar source around which scattering amplitudes replicate correlation functions computed from the 2D `gluon' operators in a limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Walker Melton , Sruthi A. Narayanan

Eikonal exponentiation in QFT describes the emergence of classical physics at long distances in terms of a non-trivial resummation of infinitely many diagrams. Long ago, 't Hooft proposed a beautiful correspondence between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Tim Adamo , Andrea Cristofoli , Piotr Tourkine

We compute scattering amplitudes involving one massive scalar and two, three, or four gravitons. We show that when the conformal dimension of the massive scalar is set to zero, the resulting celestial correlators depend {\it only} on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Adam Ball , Shounak De , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

In celestial holography, four-dimensional scattering amplitudes are considered as two-dimensional conformal correlators of a putative two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The simplest way of converting momentum space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

Celestial amplitudes are flat-space amplitudes which are Mellin-transformed to correlators living on the celestial sphere. In this note we present a recursion relation, based on a tree-level BCFW recursion, for gravitational celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-20 Alfredo Guevara

We explore celestial amplitude corresponding to $2d$ bulk $\mathcal{S}$-matrix. We consider scalar particles with identical mass and show that the celestial amplitude becomes the fourier transform of the $2d$ $\mathcal{S}$-matrix written in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-16 Sarthak Duary

Celestial CFT$_d$ is the putative dual of quantum gravity in asymptotically flat $(d+2)$ dimensional space time. We argue that a class of Celestial CFT$_d$ can be engineered via AdS$_{d+1}$-CFT$_d$ correspondence. Our argument is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Shamik Banerjee , Nishant Gupta , Sagnik Misra

In this paper, we study celestial amplitudes of Goldstone bosons and conformal soft theorems. Motivated by the success of soft bootstrap in momentum space and the important role of the soft limit behavior of tree-level amplitudes, our goal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka , Petr Vasko

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

We explicitly calculate a Witten diagram with general spinor field exchange on $(d+1)$-dimensional Euclidean Anti-de Sitter space, which is necessary to evaluate four-point correlation functions with spinor fields when we make use of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Teruhiko Kawano , Kazumi Okuyama

Celestial amplitudes may be decomposed as weighted integrals of AdS$_3$-Witten diagrams associated to each leaf of a hyperbolic foliation of spacetime. We show, for the Kleinian three-point MHV amplitude, that each leaf subamplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

We start by constructing a conformally covariant improvement of the celestial light transform which keeps track of the mixing between incoming and outgoing states under finite Lorentz transformations in $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$. We then compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Carmen Jorge-Diaz , Sabrina Pasterski , Atul Sharma

A natural extension of the Pasterski-Shao-Strominger (PSS) prescription is described, enabling the map of Minkowski space amplitudes with massive spinning external legs to the celestial sphere to be performed. An integral representation for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Y. T. Albert Law , Michael Zlotnikov

Assuming the existence of crossing symmetric celestial OPE, we propose a method to reconstruct four-point massless scattering amplitudes in the framework of celestial holography. This method relies only on CFT techniques and a remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma