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We show that, given a two-dimensional realization of the celestial OPE in self-dual Yang-Mills, we can find a scalar source around which scattering amplitudes replicate correlation functions computed from the 2D `gluon' operators in a limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Walker Melton , Sruthi A. Narayanan

Celestial amplitudes represent 4D scattering of particles in boost, rather than the usual energy-momentum, eigenstates and hence are sensitive to both UV and IR physics. We show that known UV and IR properties of quantum gravity translate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

Carrollian field theories have recently emerged as a candidate dual to flat space quantum gravity. We carefully quantize simple two-derivative Carrollian theories, revealing a strong sensitivity to the ultraviolet. They can be regulated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen , Stefan Prohazka , Amir Raz , Max Riegler , Jakob Salzer

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Dhritiman Nandan , Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

The scattering of gluons and gravitons in trivial backgrounds is endowed with many surprising infrared features which have interesting conformal interpretations on the two-dimensional celestial sphere. However, the fate of these structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-21 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Bin Zhu

Celestial amplitudes which use conformal primary wavefunctions rather than plane waves as external states offer a novel opportunity to study properties of amplitudes with manifest conformal covariance and give insight into a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Eduardo Casali , Andrea Puhm

We propose a new program for computing a certain integrand of scattering amplitudes of four-dimensional gauge theories which we call the \textit{form factor integrand}, starting from 6d holomorphic theories on twistor space. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-03 Kevin Costello , Natalie M. Paquette

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

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

The Carroll group arises in the vanishing speed of light limit of the Poincar\'{e} group and was initially discarded as just a mathematical curiosity. However, recent developments have proved otherwise. Carroll and conformal Carroll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Arjun Bagchi , Aritra Banerjee , Prateksh Dhivakar , Saikat Mondal , Ashish Shukla

Continuing our program of deriving aspects of celestial holography from string theory, we extend the Roiban-Spradlin-Volovich-Witten (RSVW) formalism to celestial amplitudes. We reformulate the tree-level maximally-helicity-violating (MHV)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-30 Igor Mol

We start by constructing a conformally covariant improvement of the celestial light transform which keeps track of the mixing between incoming and outgoing states under finite Lorentz transformations in $\mathbb{R}^{2,2}$. We then compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Carmen Jorge-Diaz , Sabrina Pasterski , Atul Sharma

On-shell kinematics for gluon scattering can be parametrized with points on the celestial sphere; in the limit where these points collide, it is known that tree-level gluon scattering amplitudes exhibit an operator product expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-19 Tim Adamo , Wei Bu , Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

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

We use the extrapolate dictionary to revisit the spectrum of operators in Celestial CFT. Under the Celestial CFT map, each state in the 4D Hilbert space should map to one in the 2D Hilbert space. This implies that, beyond the familiar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Justin Kulp , Sabrina Pasterski

Celestial amplitudes may be decomposed as weighted integrals of AdS$_3$-Witten diagrams associated to each leaf of a hyperbolic foliation of spacetime. We show, for the Kleinian three-point MHV amplitude, that each leaf subamplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

It is known that the $(a,c)$ central charges in four-dimensional CFTs are linear combinations of the three independent OPE coefficients of the stress-tensor three-point function. In this paper, we adopt the holographic approach using AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Yue-Zhou Li , H. Lu , Liang Ma

Holography can provide a microscopic interpretation of a gravitational solution as corresponding to a particular CFT state: the asymptotic expansion in gravity encodes the expectation values of operators in the dual CFT state. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 Stefano Giusto , Sami Rawash , David Turton

We develop a formalism to study the implications of causality on OPE coefficients in conformal field theories with large central charge and a sparse spectrum of higher spin operators. The formalism has the interpretation of a new conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini

Recently, scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime have been interpreted as conformal correlation functions on the two-dimensional celestial sphere, the so-called celestial amplitudes. In this note we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Livia Ferro , Robert Moerman