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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

Flat spacetimes are foliated by hyperbolic slices that are geometrically three-dimensional de Sitter or anti-de Sitter spaces. As such, it is possible to construct flat space holographic dualities by applying the AdS/CFT bulk-to-boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Walker Melton

For a given conformal field theory (CFT), one can deform it via the addition of a marginal operator to the spectrum. In two dimensions, when the added operator has conformal weights $h=\bar{h}=1$, conformal symmetry is not broken and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Michael Imseis , Sruthi A. Narayanan , A. W. Peet

Known holographic dictionaries, especially AdS/CFT, rely on symmetry matching between the bulk and the boundary. We take a step toward a holographic dictionary with no symmetry requirement and without assuming the geometry being…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Tamra Nebabu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Haifeng Tang , Huaijin Wang

The entanglement wedge reconstruction paradigm in AdS/CFT states that for a bulk qudit within the entanglement wedge of a boundary subregion $\bar{A}$, operators acting on the bulk qudit can be reconstructed as CFT operators on $\bar{A}$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Onkar Parrikar , Harshit Rajgadia , Vivek Singh , Jonathan Sorce

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we identify a class of CFT operators which represent diff-invariant and approximately local observables in the gravitational dual. Provided that the bulk state breaks all asymptotic symmetries, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Eyoab Bahiru , Alexandre Belin , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Gabor Sarosi , Niloofar Vardian

We develop a split representation for celestial amplitudes in celestial holography, by cutting internal lines of Feynman diagrams in Minkowski space. More explicitly, the bulk-to-bulk propagators associated with the internal lines are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Chi-Ming Chang , Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

Wavelets encode data at multiple resolutions, which in a wavelet description of a quantum field theory, allows for fields to carry, in addition to space-time coordinates, an extra dimension: scale. A recently introduced Exact Holographic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Sukhwinder Singh , Gavin K. Brennen

Assuming the existence of a field theory in D dimensions dual to (D+1)-dimensional flat space, governed by the asymptotic symmetries of flat space, we make some preliminary remarks about the properties of this field theory. We review…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Arjun Bagchi , Rudranil Basu , Ashish Kakkar , Aditya Mehra

In this work we present a "modest" holographic reconstruction of the bulk geometry in asymptotically flat spacetime using the two-point correlators of boundary quantum field theory (QFT) in asymptotically flat spacetime. The boundary QFT…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-04 Erickson Tjoa , Finnian Gray

The butterfly velocity characterizes the spread of correlations in a quantum system. Recent work has provided a method of calculating the butterfly velocity of a class of boundary operators using holographic duality. Utilizing this and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Yasunori Nomura , Nico Salzetta

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

In this paper, we studied the relationship between celestial holography and chiral strings. Chiral strings differ from the usual string theory by a change of boundary conditions on the string propagators. It is shown that chiral strings…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Hare Krishna , Yu-Ping Wang

Minkowski space can be sliced, outside the lightcone, in terms of Euclidean Anti-de Sitter and Lorentzian de Sitter slices. In this paper we investigate what happens when we apply holography to each slice separately. This yields a dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan de Boer , Sergey N. Solodukhin

In this note we discuss a possible holographic dual of the two dimensional conformal field theory associated with the world-sheet of a macroscopic superstring in a compactification on four-torus. We assume the near horizon geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-09 Mohsen Alishahiha , Subir Mukhopadhyay

We provide a first derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of 3d flat cosmological horizons in terms of the counting of states in a dual field theory. These horizons appear in the shifted-boost orbifold of R^{1,2}, the flat limit of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Arjun Bagchi , Stephane Detournay , Reza Fareghbal , Joan Simon

Holographic CFTs admit a dual emergent description in terms of semiclassical general relativity minimally coupled to matter fields. While the gravitational interactions are required to be suppressed by the Planck scale, the matter sector is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Luis Apolo , Alexandre Belin , Suzanne Bintanja

Using holographic renormalization coupled with the Caffarelli/Silvestre\cite{caffarelli} extension theorem, we calculate the precise form of the boundary operator dual to a bulk scalar field rather than just its average value. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-24 Gabriele La Nave , Philip Phillips

Carrollian holography is a framework for flat space holography, suggesting that gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime in $D$ dimensions is dual to a conformal Carrollian field theory in $D - 1$ dimensions living at null infinity. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Harshal Kulkarni , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

We argue that classical spacetimes represent amplified information in the holographic theory of quantum gravity. In general, classicalization of a quantum system involves amplification of information at the cost of exponentially reducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-06 Yasunori Nomura , Pratik Rath , Nico Salzetta