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We compute the modification of the $w_{1+\infty}$ algebra of soft graviton, gluon and scalar currents in the celestial CFT due to non-minimal couplings. We find that the Jacobi identity is satisfied only when the spectrum and couplings of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-06 Jorge Mago , Lecheng Ren , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

It is shown that the infinite tower of tree-level soft graviton symmetries in asymptotically flat 4D quantum gravity can be organized into a single chiral 2D Kac-Moody symmetry based on the wedge algebra of w(1+infinity). The infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-09 Andrew Strominger

We determine the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric $W_{1+\infty}^{2,2}[\lambda=\frac{1}{4}]$ algebra which is an extension of ${\cal N}=4$ $SO(4)$ superconformal algebra with vanishing central charge. We identify the soft current algebra between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 Changhyun Ahn , Man Hea Kim

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

Symmetry algebras deriving from towers of soft theorems can be deformed by a short list of higher-dimension Wilsonian corrections to the effective action. We study the simplest of these deformations in gauge theory arising from a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Walker Melton , Sruthi A. Narayanan , Andrew Strominger

We investigate a deformation of $w_{1+\infty}$ algebra recently introduced in arxiv:2111.11356 in the context of Celestial CFT that we denote by $\widetilde{W}_{1+\infty}$ algebra. We obtain the operator product expansions of the generating…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Pavel Drozdov , Taro Kimura

Celestial holography has led to the discovery of new symmetry algebras arising from the study of collinear limits of perturbative gravity amplitudes in flat space. We explain from the twistor perspective how a non-vanishing cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-28 Roland Bittleston , Giuseppe Bogna , Simon Heuveline , Adam Kmec , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

The canonical structure of supergravity with a cosmological constant is analyzed in 2 + 1 dimensions using the Dirac constraint formalism. The first class constraints are used to find two Bosonic and one Fermionic gauge symmetries that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 D. G. C. McKeon

By using the $K$-free complex bosons and the $K$-free complex fermions, we construct the ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric $W_{\infty}^{K,K}$ algebra which is the matrix generalization of previous ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric $W_{\infty}$ algebra.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-12 Changhyun Ahn

We investigate the asymptotic symmetry algebra of (2+1)-dimensional higher spin, anti-de Sitter gravity. We use the formulation of the theory as a Chern-Simons gauge theory based on the higher spin algebra hs(1,1). Expanding the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Marc Henneaux , Soo-Jong Rey

We determine the ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric topological $W_{\infty} $ algebra by using the $\lambda $ deformed bosons $(\beta,\gamma)$ and fermions $(b,c)$ ghost system. By considering the real bosons and the real fermions at $\lambda=0$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Changhyun Ahn , Man Hea Kim

From the classical $SO({\cal N}=8)$ extended superconformal algebra between the lowest ${\cal N}=8$ multiplet in two dimensions obtained by Ademollo et al. (1976), we generalize it for the arbitrary ${\cal N}=8$ multiplet with manifest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Changhyun Ahn , Man Hea Kim

In four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes, an infinite tower of soft graviton modes is known to generate the symmetry algebra of ${\rm w}_{1+\infty}$ at tree-level. Here we demonstrate that the symmetry action follows from soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-15 Elizabeth Himwich , Monica Pate

It is shown that the supersymmetric extension of the Stelle-West formalism permits the construction of an action for $(3+1)$-dimensional N=1 supergravity with cosmological constant genuinely invariant under the $OSp(4/1).$ Since the action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Salgado , S. del Campo , M. Cataldo

The infinite tower of positive-helicity soft gravitons in any minimally coupled, tree-level, asymptotically flat four-dimensional (4D) gravity was recently shown to generate a $w_{1+\infty}$ asymptotic symmetry algebra. It is natural to ask…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-23 Adam Ball , Sruthi Narayanan , Jakob Salzer , Andrew Strominger

The cosmological constant problem is studied in a two component cosmological model. The universe contains a cosmological constant of an arbitrary size and sign and an additional component with an inhomogeneous equation of state. It is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-16 Hrvoje Stefancic

In this paper, we consider the Wheeler-DeWitt equation modified by a deformation of the second quantized canonical commutation relations. Such modified commutation relations are induced by a Generalized Uncertainty Principle. Since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-14 Remo Garattini , Mir Faizal

We study W-algebras obtained by quantum Hamiltonian reduction of $sl(Mn)$ associated to the $sl(2)$ embedding of rectangular type. The algebra can be realized as the asymptotic symmetry of higher spin gravity with $M \times M$ matrix valued…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Thomas Creutzig , Yasuaki Hikida

We consider the world-line quantisation of a system invariant under the symmetries of reciprocal relativity. Imposition of the first class constraint, the generator of local time reparametrisations, on physical states enforces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. D. Jarvis , S. O. Morgan

In this paper, we study gravitational symmetry algebras that live on 2-dimensional cuts $S$ of asymptotic infinity. We define a notion of wedge algebra $\mathcal{W}(S)$ which depends on the topology of $S$. For the cylinder $S=\mathbb{C}^*$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Nicolas Cresto , Laurent Freidel
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