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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

In this paper we compute the celestial operator product expansion between two outgoing positive helicity gravitons in the self dual gravity. It has been shown that the self dual gravity is a $ w_{1+\infty} $-invariant theory whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Shamik Banerjee , Harshal Kulkarni , Partha Paul

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

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

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

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

In celestial holography, the massive and massless scalars in 4d space-time are represented by the Fourier transform of the bulk-to-boundary propagators and the Mellin transform of plane waves respectively. Recently, the 3pt celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Wei Fan

Multi-collinear factorization limits provide a window to study how locality and unitarity of scattering amplitudes can emerge dynamically from celestial CFT, the conjectured holographic dual to gauge and gravitational theories in flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-05 Stephen Ebert , Atul Sharma , Diandian Wang

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 compute tree-level celestial operator product expansions (OPE) in a bosonic sub-sector of the Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity from the scattering amplitudes in the MHV configuration. While the OPE between a leading soft graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Nirmal Ghorai , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

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 study the operator product expansion (OPE) for scalar conformal defects of any codimension in CFT. The OPE for defects is decomposed into "defect OPE blocks", the irreducible representations of the conformal group, each of which packages…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Masayuki Fukuda , Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

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

Both celestial and momentum space amplitudes in four dimensions are beset by divergences resulting from spacetime translation and sometimes scale invariance. In this paper we consider a (linearized) marginal deformation of the celestial CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Eduardo Casali , Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger

The amplitude for the singlet channels in the 4-point function of the fundamental field in the conformal field theory of the 2d $O(n)$ model is studied as a function of $n$. For a generic value of $n$, the 4-point function has infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Hirohiko Shimada

In this paper we continue our investigation of superstring scattering amplitudes in the conformal basis. We focus on the case of four graviton scattering processes at 1-loop in \emph{closed} superstring theory. We write the expression for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Anthonny F. Canazas Garay , Gaston Giribet , Yoel Parra-Cisterna , Francisco Rojas

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

Scattering amplitudes are tempered distributions, which are defined through their action on functions in the Schwartz space $S(\mathbb{R})$ by duality. For massless particles, their conformal properties become manifest when considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Yorgo Pano , Majdouline Borji

Four-point gluon and graviton correlators in celestial holography are famously non-analytic, having distributional support. In this work, we propose an alternative graviton correlator that is analytic and displays several desirable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-02 Iustin Surubaru , Bin Zhu

What is the boundary holographic dual of S-duality for gauge theories in asymptotically flat space-times? Celestial amplitudes, by virtue of exhibiting holographic properties of the S-matrix, appear well-suited for studying this question.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Tristan McLoughlin , Nathan Moynihan , Andrea Puhm