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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

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

Scattering amplitudes of massless particles in Minkowski space can be expressed in a conformal basis by Mellin transforming the momentum space amplitudes to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Soner Albayrak , Chandramouli Chowdhury , Savan Kharel

In an earlier paper [arXiv:2511.03669] we extracted the OPE of celestial CFT operator duals of positive helicity graviton and scalar particles from the Mellin transformed relevant MHV amplitudes of conformal gravity, realised as the bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Nirmal Ghorai , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

In this paper we study the OPE between two positive helicity outgoing gluons in the celestial CFT for the Yang-Mills theory chirally coupled to a massive scalar background. This theory breaks the translation as well as scale invariance. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Shamik Banerjee , Raju Mandal , Akavoor Manu , Partha Paul

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

In a recent paper, here referred to as part I, we considered the celestial four-gluon amplitude with one gluon represented by the shadow transform of the corresponding primary field operator. This correlator is ill-defined because it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We derive new constraints on massive gravity from unitarity and analyticity of scattering amplitudes. Our results apply to a general effective theory defined by Einstein gravity plus the leading soft diffeomorphism-breaking corrections. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

We argue that the scattering of gravitons in ordinary Einstein gravity possesses a hidden conformal symmetry at tree level in any number of dimensions. The presence of this conformal symmetry is indicated by the dilaton soft theorem in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Florian Loebbert , Matin Mojaza , Jan Plefka

Celestial holography posits that the long-distance behavior of gauge and gravity theories is dictated by two-dimensional conformal field theories defined on the celestial sphere. For non-abelian gauge theories, this proposal is verified, to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lorenzo Magnea , Enrico Zunino

In this paper, we analyze the loop corrections to celestial OPE for gluons and gravitons. Even at the loop level, the soft gluons and gravitons have conformal dimensions $\Delta=1-\mathbb Z_{\geq 0}$. The only novelty is the presence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-27 Hare Krishna

Differential equations are powerful tools in the study of correlation functions in conformal field theories (CFTs). Carrollian amplitudes behave as correlation functions of Carrollian CFT that holographically describes asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-09 Romain Ruzziconi , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

Asymptotic particle states in four-dimensional celestial scattering amplitudes are labelled by their $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ Lorentz/conformal weights $(h,\bar{h})$ rather than the usual energy-momentum four-vector. These boost eigenstates…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

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

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

Celestial amplitudes provide holographic imprints of four-dimensional scattering processes in terms of conformal correlation functions on a two-dimensional sphere describing Minkowski space at null infinity. We construct the generators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

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

Carrollian holography is supposed to describe gravity in four-dimensional asymptotically flat space-time by the three-dimensional Carrollian CFT living at null infinity. We transform superstring scattering amplitudes into the correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-29 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

In this short note, we propose an algorithm based on the expansions of amplitudes, the dimensional reduction technic and the differential operators, to calculate the tree level scalar-graviton amplitudes with two massive scalars, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou , Guo-Jun Zhou

In this paper we continue our study of the tree level MHV graviton scattering amplitudes from the point of view of celestial holography. In arXiv:2008.04330 we showed that the celestial OPE of two gravitons in the MHV sector can be written…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Partha Paul