English
Related papers

Related papers: Multiparticle Contributions to the Celestial OPE

200 papers

We study scattering amplitudes in the shadow conformal primary basis, which satisfies the same defining properties as the original conformal primary basis and has many advantages over it. The shadow celestial amplitudes exhibit locality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Chi-Ming Chang , Wei Cui , Wen-Jie Ma , Hongfei Shu , Hao Zou

We derive a nonperturbative, convergent operator product expansion (OPE) for null-integrated operators on the same null plane in a CFT. The objects appearing in the expansion are light-ray operators, whose matrix elements can be computed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Murat Kologlu , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov

We establish the nonperturbative celestial optical theorem from the unitarity of $S$-matrix. This theorem provides a set of nonperturbative bootstrap equations of the conformal partial wave (CPW) coefficients. The celestial optical theorem…

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

We analyze the convergence properties of operator product expansions (OPE) for Lorentzian CFT four-point functions of scalar operators. We give a complete classification of Lorentzian four-point configurations. All configurations in each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Jiaxin Qiao

We present the foundation for a holographic dictionary with depth perception. The dictionary consists of natural CFT operators whose duals are simple, diffeomorphism-invariant bulk operators. The CFT operators of interest are the "OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-29 Bartlomiej Czech , Lampros Lamprou , Samuel McCandlish , Benjamin Mosk , James Sully

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

For a given conformal field theory (CFT), one can deform it via the addition of a marginal operator to the spectrum. In two dimensions, when the added operator has conformal weights $h=\bar{h}=1$, conformal symmetry is not broken and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Michael Imseis , Sruthi A. Narayanan , A. W. Peet

We identify an eikonal regime in celestial CFT$_2$ in which massless 2-2 scattering is dominated by t-channel exchange. We derive a formula for the celestial amplitude that resums exchanges of arbitrary integer spin to all orders in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-22 Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia , Ana-Maria Raclariu

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Vilas Boas

Quantitative theoretical techniques for understanding the substructure of jets at the LHC enable new insights into the dynamics of QCD, and novel approaches to search for new physics. Recently, there has been a program to reformulate jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Hao Chen , Ian Moult , Joshua Sandor , Hua Xing Zhu

We show that the Mellin transform of an $n$-point tree level MHV gluon scattering amplitude, also known as the celestial amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory, satisfies a system of $(n-2)$ linear first order partial differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh

Celestial holography expresses $\mathcal{S}$-matrix elements as correlators in a CFT living on the night sky. Poincar\'e invariance imposes additional selection rules on the allowed positions of operators. As a consequence, $n$-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Sebastian Mizera , Sabrina Pasterski

Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees of freedom. We study the CFT analog of this phenomenon, which we term the `eikonalization'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-11 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Matthew T. Walters , Junpu Wang

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

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 develop a split representation for celestial amplitudes in celestial holography, by cutting internal lines of Feynman diagrams in Minkowski space. More explicitly, the bulk-to-bulk propagators associated with the internal lines are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Chi-Ming Chang , Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

We compute celestial amplitudes corresponding to the exact S-matrix of the 2d O(N)-symmetric nonlinear sigma model. Celestial amplitudes for two-dimensional integrable S-matrices simplify to Fourier transforms. Due to the connection between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-05 Valeriia Stolbova

Correlation functions of local operators in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on hyperbolic space can be fully characterized by the set of QFT data $\lbrace \Delta_i,C_{ijk},b^{\hat{\mathcal{O}}}_j\rbrace$. These are the scaling dimensions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Manuel Loparco , Grégoire Mathys , Joao Penedones , Jiaxin Qiao , Xiang Zhao

The operator product expansion (OPE) of the Wilson surface operators in six-dimensional (2, 0) superconformal field theory is studied from AdS/CFT correspondence in this paper. We compute the OPE coefficients of the chiral primary operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bin Chen , Chang-Yong Liu , Jun-Bao Wu

Hecke operators acting on modular functions arise naturally in the context of 2d conformal field theory, but in seemingly disparate areas, including permutation orbifold theories, ensembles of code CFTs, and more recently in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Nico Cooper