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We develop an inverse matrix method to solve for resonance masses from a dispersion relation obeyed by a correlation function. Given the operator product expansion (OPE) of a correlation function in the deep Euclidean region, we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Hsiang-nan Li

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

The functional structure of celestial amplitudes as constrained by Poincar\'e symmetry is investigated in $2,3,$ and $4$-point cases for massless external particles of various spin, as well as massive external scalars. Functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-10 Y. T. Albert Law , Michael Zlotnikov

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

Marginal operators in a d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT), those with conformal dimension $\Delta=d$, give us information about the space of related theories. This can be incredibly useful when trying to develop an intrinsic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Sruthi A. Narayanan

We study gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We solve numerically the discretized Euler-Lagrange equations on the square worldsheet for the minimal surface with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Suguru Dobashi , Katsushi Ito , Koh Iwasaki

We study four-point functions of spinning operators in the flavor current multiplet in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs, using superspace techniques. In particular we explicitly construct the differential operators relating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-26 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Andrea Manenti , Xinan Zhou

We introduce a family of dualities between certain non-supersymmetric self-dual gauge theories on a large class of $4d$ self-dual asymptotically flat backgrounds, and the large $N$ limit of an independently defined $2d$ chiral defect CFT.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Roland Bittleston , Kevin Costello , Keyou Zeng

In celestial conformal field theory, gluons are represented by primary fields with dimensions $\Delta=1+i\lambda$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$ and spin $J=\pm 1$, in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. All two- and three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

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

We compute the four-point correlator of two gluon light-ray operators and two gluon primaries from the four-gluon celestial amplitude in $(2,2)$ signature spacetime. The correlator is non-distributional and allows us to verify that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Yangrui Hu , Luke Lippstreu , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

We show that two- and three-point celestial (C)CFT$_{d-1}$ amplitudes can be directly obtained from correlation functions in a unitary Lorentzian CFT$_d$ on $\mathbb{R}\times S^{d-1}$. The recipe involves a rescaling of the operators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia , Ana-Maria Raclariu

It is shown that a 2D CFT consisting of a central charge $c$ Liouville theory, a chiral level one, rank $N$ Kac-Moody algebra and a weight $-3/2$ free fermion holographically generate 4D MHV tree-level scattering amplitudes. The correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-29 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger , Tianli Wang

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

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

Conformally soft gluons are conserved currents of the Celestial Conformal Field Theory (CCFT) and generate a Kac-Moody algebra. We study celestial amplitudes of Yang-Mills theory, which are Mellin transforms of gluon amplitudes and take the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

A scalar cubic action that classically reproduces the self-dual Yang--Mills equations is shown to generate one-loop QCD amplitudes for external gluon all with the same helicity. This result is related to the symmetries of the self-dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Daniel Cangemi

Low multiplicity celestial amplitudes of gluons and gravitons tend to be distributional in the celestial coordinates $z,\bar z$. We provide a new systematic remedy to this situation by studying celestial amplitudes in a basis of light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Atul Sharma

We compute scalar three-point celestial amplitudes involving two and three massive scalars. The three-point coefficient of celestial amplitudes with two massive scalars contains a hypergeometric function, and the one with three massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

We study celestial amplitudes in (super) Yang-Mills theory using a parameterisation of the spinor helicity variables where their overall phase is not fixed by the little group action. In this approach the spin constraint $h-\bar{h}=J$ for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Joshua Gowdy , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini