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Assuming the existence of crossing symmetric celestial OPE, we propose a method to reconstruct four-point massless scattering amplitudes in the framework of celestial holography. This method relies only on CFT techniques and a remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

We reformulate the scattering amplitudes of 4D flat space gauge theory and gravity in the language of a 2D CFT on the celestial sphere. The resulting CFT structure exhibits an OPE constructed from 4D collinear singularities, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-16 Clifford Cheung , Anton de la Fuente , Raman Sundrum

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 provides a promising avenue to studying bulk scattering in flat spacetime from the perspective of boundary celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). A key ingredient in connecting the two sides is the celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Hongliang Jiang

What is the boundary holographic dual of S-duality for gauge theories in asymptotically flat space-times? Celestial amplitudes, by virtue of exhibiting holographic properties of the S-matrix, appear well-suited for studying this question.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Tristan McLoughlin , Nathan Moynihan , Andrea Puhm

In an earlier paper [arXiv:2511.03669] we extracted the OPE of celestial CFT operator duals of positive helicity graviton and scalar particles from the Mellin transformed relevant MHV amplitudes of conformal gravity, realised as the bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Nirmal Ghorai , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We discuss the properties of recently constructed "single-valued" celestial four-gluon amplitudes. We show that the amplitude factorizes into the "current" part and the "scalar" part. The current factor is given by the group-dependent part…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

Self-dual theories are powerful toy models of their completions. It was shown recently that there are infinitely many SD-theories once massless higher-spin fields are allowed. The maximal SD-theory is chiral higher-spin gravity. Following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Mattia Serrani , Evgeny Skvortsov

We present a constructive derivation of holographic four-point correlators of arbitrary half-BPS operators for all maximally supersymmetric conformal field theories in $d>2$. This includes holographic correlators in 3d ${\cal N}=8$ ABJM…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-24 Luis F. Alday , Xinan Zhou

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 present a systematic study of holographic correlators in a vast array of SCFTs with non-maximal superconformal symmetry. These theories include 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs from D3-branes near F-theory singularities, 5d Seiberg exceptional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Luis F. Alday , Connor Behan , Pietro Ferrero , Xinan Zhou

Celestial holography suggests, among other things, that collinear singularities of graviton scattering amplitudes are described by the OPEs of some putative dual CFT. One of the great successes has been the insight that this duality is true…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Simon Heuveline

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

We construct a Liouville superconformal field theory with eight real supercharges in four dimensions. The Liouville superfield is an $\mathcal{N}=2$ chiral superfield with sixteen bosonic and sixteen fermionic component fields. Its lowest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-23 Tom Levy , Yaron Oz , Avia Raviv-Moshe

Multi-collinear factorization limits provide a window to study how locality and unitarity of scattering amplitudes can emerge dynamically from celestial CFT, the conjectured holographic dual to gauge and gravitational theories in flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-05 Stephen Ebert , Atul Sharma , Diandian Wang

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

Pasterski, Shao and Strominger have recently proposed that massless scattering amplitudes can be mapped to correlators on the celestial sphere at infinity via a Mellin transform. We apply this prescription to arbitrary $n$-point tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

We demonstrate that, by utilizing the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) operator algebra of the Liouville CFT, one can express its path-integral on any Riemann surface as a three dimensional path-integral with appropriate boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lin Chen , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang , Bing-Xin Lao

In a series of recent papers, a special kind of AdS$_2$/CFT$_1$ duality was observed: the boundary correlators of elementary fields that appear in the Lagrangian of a 2d conformal theory in rigid AdS$_2$ background are the same as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Matteo Beccaria , Hongliang Jiang , Arkady A. Tseytlin