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Conformally soft operators and their associated soft theorems on the celestial sphere encode the low energy behaviour of bulk scattering amplitudes. They lead to an infinite dimensional symmetry algebra of the celestial CFT at tree-level.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-18 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

The $w_{1+\infty}$ symmetry algebra appears in the Einstein--Yang--Mills theory, proposed recently by Strominger. In this paper, we derive the supersymmetric $w_{1+\infty}$ symmetry by using the known results on the operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-11 Changhyun Ahn

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

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

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

In this paper we extract from a large-$r$ expansion of the vacuum Einstein's equations a dynamical system governing the time evolution of an infinity of higher-spin charges. Upon integration, we evaluate the canonical action of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Laurent Freidel , Daniele Pranzetti , Ana-Maria Raclariu

The Cachazo-Strominger subleading soft graviton theorem for a positive helicity soft graviton is equivalent to the Ward identities for $\overline{SL(2,\mathbb C)}$ currents. This naturally gives rise to a $\overline{SL(2,\mathbb C)}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-02 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Partha Paul

From a study of the subleading structure of the asymptotic equations of motion in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, we construct charges that are conserved up to quadratic order in non-radiative vacuum. We then show that these higher spin charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-01 Shreyansh Agrawal , Panagiotis Charalambous , Laura Donnay

In this paper we study the BMS symmetry of the celestial OPE of two positive helicity gravitons in Einstein theory in four dimensions. The celestial OPE is obtained by Mellin transforming the scattering amplitude in the (holomorphic)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Riccardo Gonzo

We determine tree level, all-order celestial operator product expansions (OPEs) of gluons and gravitons in the maximally helicity violating (MHV) sector. We start by obtaining the all-order collinear expansions of MHV amplitudes using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-17 Lecheng Ren , Anders Schreiber , Atul Sharma , Diandian Wang

We consider the operator product expansion (OPE) structure of scalar primary operators in a generic Lorentzian CFT and its dual description in a gravitational theory with one extra dimension. The OPE can be decomposed into certain bi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Heng-Yu Chen , Lung-Chuan Chen , Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

The analytic structures of scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity are examined on the celestial sphere. The celestial amplitudes in the two theories - computed by employing a regulated Mellin transform - can be compared at low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-27 Nikhil Kalyanapuram

Celestial operator product expansions (OPEs) arise from the collinear limit of scattering amplitudes and play a vital role in celestial holography. In this paper, we derive the celestial OPEs of massless fields in string theory from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Hongliang Jiang

We revisit the standard construction of the celestial stress tensor as a shadow of the subleading conformally soft graviton. In its original formulation there is an obstruction to reproducing the expected TT OPE in the double soft limit. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Shamik Banerjee , Sabrina Pasterski

The linearized massless wave equation in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes is known to admit two families of solutions that transform in highest-weight representations of the Lorentz group ${\rm SL}(2, \mathbb{C})$. The two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Elizabeth Himwich , Monica Pate

Carrollian holography aims to express gravity in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime in terms of a dual three-dimensional Carrollian CFT living at null infinity. Carrollian amplitudes are massless scattering amplitudes written in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Lionel Mason , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

The four-dimensional $S$-matrix is reconsidered as a correlator on the celestial sphere at null infinity. Asymptotic particle states can be characterized by the point at which they enter or exit the celestial sphere as well as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Laura Donnay , Andrea Puhm , Andrew Strominger

Using tools from color-kinematics duality we propose a holographic construction of gravitational amplitudes, based on a 2d Kac-Moody theory on the celestial sphere. In the $N\to \infty$ limit the gauge group corresponds to $w_{1+\infty}$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-05 Alfredo Guevara

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 consider the Moyal deformation of self-dual gravity. In the conformal primary basis, holomorphic collinear limits of the amplitudes of this theory show that it enjoys a perturbatively exact symmetry algebra $LW_\wedge$ that generalises…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Wei Bu , Simon Heuveline , David Skinner