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These notes consist of 3 lectures on celestial holography given at the Pre-Strings school 2021. We start by reviewing how semiclassically, the subleading soft graviton theorem implies an enhancement of the Lorentz symmetry of scattering in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Ana-Maria Raclariu

We examine three point functions with two scalar operators and a higher spin current in 2d W_N minimal model to the next non-trivial order in 1/N expansion. The minimal model was proposed to be dual to a 3d higher spin gauge theory, and 1/N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Yasuaki Hikida , Takahiro Uetoko

We develop a hybrid formalism suitable for modeling scalar field dark matter, in which the phase-space distribution associated to the real scalar field is modeled by statistical equal-time two-point functions and gravity is treated by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Tomislav Prokopec , Pavel Friedrich

In AdS/CFT, we introduce a robust method for computing $n$-point gluon Mellin amplitudes, applicable in various spacetime dimensions. Using the Mellin transform and a recursive algorithm, we efficiently calculate tree-level gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Jinwei Chu , Savan Kharel

Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be expressed in terms of a conformal basis, for which the S-matrix behaves as a CFT correlation function on the celestial $d$-sphere. We explain how compact expressions for the full tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Tim Adamo , Lionel Mason , Atul Sharma

Lecture notes on Poincar\'e-invariant scattering amplitudes and tree-level recursion relations in spinor-helicity formalism. We illustrate the non-perturbative constraints imposed over on-shell amplitudes by the Lorentz Little Group, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-30 Andrea Marzolla

An important property of the three-point functions generated in the early universe is the so-called consistency condition. According to the condition, in the squeezed limit wherein the wavenumber of one of the three modes (constituting the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Debottam Nandi , L. Sriramkumar

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

We study the three-quark light-cone amplitudes of the proton including quarks' transverse momenta. We classify these amplitudes using a newly-developed method in which light-cone wave functions are constructed from a class of light-cone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiangdong Ji , Jian-Ping Ma , Feng Yuan

The connection between the two-point and the three-point correlation functions in the non-linear gravitational clustering regime is studied. Under a scaling hypothesis, we find that the three-point correlation function, $\zeta$, obeys the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroko Koyama , Taihei Yano

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

In this thesis massive higher derivative gravity theories are analyzed in some detail. One-particle scattering amplitude between two covariantly conserved sources mediated by a graviton exchange is found at tree-level in $D$ dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-01 Ibrahim Gullu

We revisit the emergence of a Yang-Mills symmetry in theories with massless spin 1 particles from fundamental physical properties of scattering amplitudes. In the standard proofs, some symmetry and reality properties of the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Renato M. Fonseca , Clara Hernandez-Garcia , Javier M. Lizana , Manuel Perez-Victoria

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

Conformally soft gluons are conserved currents of the Celestial Conformal Field Theory (CCFT) and generate a Kac-Moody algebra. We study celestial amplitudes of Yang-Mills theory, which are Mellin transforms of gluon amplitudes and take the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

The theory of particle scattering is concerned with transition amplitudes between states that belong to unitary representations of the Poincar\'e group. The latter acts as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{M}$, making…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Kevin Nguyen

Carrollian amplitudes are scattering amplitudes of massless particles written in position space at null infinity. We study various aspects of Carrollian amplitudes for gauge theory and gravity at loop level using primarily the modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Vijay Nenmeli , Bin Zhu

In this note, we continue our study of Liouville theory and celestial amplitudes by deriving a set of partial differential equations governing the $n$-point MHV celestial amplitudes for gluons and gravitons, parametrised by the Liouville…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Igor Mol

The leading soft photon theorem implies that four-dimensional scattering amplitudes are controlled by a two-dimensional (2D) $U(1)$ Kac-Moody symmetry that acts on the celestial sphere at null infinity ($\mathcal{I}$). This celestial $U(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Elizabeth Himwich , Andrew Strominger

In this work we continue the investigation of the extrapolate dictionary for celestial holography recently proposed in [2301.01810], at both the perturbative and non-perturbative level. Focusing on scalar field theories, we give a complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-31 Lorenzo Iacobacci , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna