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We compute the four-point correlator of two gluon light-ray operators and two gluon primaries from the four-gluon celestial amplitude in $(2,2)$ signature spacetime. The correlator is non-distributional and allows us to verify that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Yangrui Hu , Luke Lippstreu , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

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 study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green-Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincar\'e symmetry, but no 2d superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam Tropper

We show that two- and three-point celestial (C)CFT$_{d-1}$ amplitudes can be directly obtained from correlation functions in a unitary Lorentzian CFT$_d$ on $\mathbb{R}\times S^{d-1}$. The recipe involves a rescaling of the operators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia , Ana-Maria Raclariu

The soft limits of scattering amplitudes have been extensively studied due to their essential role in the computation of physical observables in collider physics. The universal factorisation that occurs in these kinematic limits has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm , Ana-Maria Raclariu

Building on results in arXiv:2203.04255, we compute the correlator of four gluon light-ray operators in celestial CFT. We find that it is described by Fox H-functions and generalized I-functions of multiple variables. We also analyze…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Shounak De , Yangrui Hu , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

We discuss supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory coupled to dilatons in the framework of celestial holography. We show that in the presence of point-like dilaton sources, the CCFT operators associated with the gauge supermultiplet acquire a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

Understanding the link between correlation functions (CFs) of local operators and measurable collider correlators has emerged as a new opportunity in the study of gauge theory dynamics at colliders. While in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Hao Chen , Pier Francesco Monni , Zhaoyan Pang , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We elaborate on the proposal of flat holography in which four-dimensional physics is encoded in two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The symmetry underlying CCFT is the extended BMS symmetry of (asymptotically) flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

In celestial holography, scattering particles in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes are dual to conformal primary field operators on the celestial sphere. Multi-particle celestial operators can be formed from regularized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Mathew Calkins , Monica Pate

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

This paper presents a systematic cataloging of the generators of celestial symmetries on phase space. Starting from the celestial OPEs, we first show how to extract a representation of the general-spin analog of the wedge subalgebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

We use the extrapolate dictionary to revisit the spectrum of operators in Celestial CFT. Under the Celestial CFT map, each state in the 4D Hilbert space should map to one in the 2D Hilbert space. This implies that, beyond the familiar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Justin Kulp , Sabrina Pasterski

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

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

Within the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence we attempt to formulate the cosmological constant problem in the dual conformal field theory. The fine-tuning of the bulk cosmological constant is related to an apparent fine-tuning in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-20 Kyriakos Papadodimas

We investigate the presence of logarithmic CFT doublets in the soft sector of celestial CFT related with supertranslations. We show that the quantum operator associated with a $\log u$ late-time behavior for the asymptotic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Agnese Bissi , Laura Donnay , Beniamino Valsesia

The Celestial Holography program encompasses recent efforts to understand the flat space hologram in terms of a CFT living on the celestial sphere. A key development instigating these efforts came from understanding how soft limits of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Sabrina Pasterski

Cosmological correlators encode invaluable information about the wavefunction of the primordial universe. In this letter we present a duality between correlators and wavefunction coefficients that is valid to all orders in the loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 David Stefanyszyn , Xi Tong , Yuhang Zhu

In this paper, we first study the consequence of spacetime translations and Lorentz transformations on Celestial CFT OPEs. Working with the light transforms of the operators belonging to the modified Mellin basis, we found that the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sayali Atul Bhatkar