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We demonstrate how three-point correlation functions of the free scalar U(N) model involving two scalar operators and one spin-$s$ conserved current organize themselves into corresponding AdS amplitudes involving two scalar and one spin-$s$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 Shailesh Lal

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

In this note we consider the four-point function of identical scalar operators in its Mellin representation. For CFTs, taking the large scaling dimension limit of the Mellin amplitude yields the flat-space S-matrix. Using this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-06 Carlos Cardona , Yu-tin Huang , Tsung-Hsuan Tsai

We initiate a systematic study of amplitudes with massive external particles on the Coulomb-branch of N=4 super Yang Mills theory: 1) We propose that (multi-)soft-scalar limits of massless amplitudes at the origin of moduli space can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nathaniel Craig , Henriette Elvang , Michael Kiermaier , Tracy Slatyer

We study the effect of loop corrections to conformal correlators on the celestial sphere at null infinity. We first analyze finite one-loop celestial amplitudes in pure Yang-Mills theory and Einstein gravity. We then turn to our main focus:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Hernan A. Gonzalez , Andrea Puhm , Francisco Rojas

A naive celestial dictionary causes massless two-point functions to take the delta-function forms in the celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). We rectify the dictionary, involving the shadow transformation so that the two-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

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

Celestial operator product expansions (OPEs) arise from the collinear limit of scattering amplitudes and play a vital role in celestial holography. In this paper, we derive the celestial OPEs of massless fields in string theory from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-25 Hongliang Jiang

We investigate the nonlinear two- and three-point correlation functions of the cosmological density field in Fourier space and test the popular hierarchical clustering model, that the three-point amplitude Q is independent of scale. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Chung-Pei Ma , J. N. Fry

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

We consider the operator spectrum of a three-dimensional ${\cal N} = 2$ superconformal field theory with moduli spaces of one complex dimension, such as the fixed point theory with three chiral superfields $X,Y,Z$ and a superpotential $W =…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-17 Simeon Hellerman , Shunsuke Maeda , Masataka Watanabe

The four-dimensional (4D) Lorentz group $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ acts as the two-dimensional (2D) global conformal group on the celestial sphere at infinity where asymptotic 4D scattering states are specified. Consequent similarities of 4D flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Sabrina Pasterski , Shu-Heng Shao , Andrew Strominger

The three-point current correlation function in Euclidean spacetime for a strongly coupled system with non-Abelian global symmetry, $\langle J^a_i(x)J^b_j(y)J^c_k(z)\rangle$, is calculated from the weakly coupled AdS dual. The contribution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Kassahun Betre

We investigate the structure of the constraints on three-point correlation functions emerging when conformal invariance is imposed in momentum space and in arbitrary space-time dimensions, presenting a derivation of their solutions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Emil Mottola , Mirko Serino

Further results for conformal partial waves for four point functions for conformal primary scalar fields in conformally invariant theories are obtained. They are defined as eigenfunctions of the differential Casimir operators for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-01 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

The Euklidean correlation functions and vacuum expectation values of products of field operators of some Lorentz spin and dimension are expressed through Mellin amplitudes which depend on complex dimensions subject to linear constraints.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-15 Gerhard Mack

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

Using a method previously developed, based on the Mellin-Barnes transform, we reconstruct the two-point correlators in the vector, axial, scalar and pseudoscalar channels from the Taylor expansion at q^2=0, the threshold expansion at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 David Greynat , Pere Masjuan , Santiago Peris

The formalism of relativistic partial wave expansion is developed for four-point celestial amplitudes of massless external particles. In particular, relativistic partial waves are found as eigenfunctions to the product representation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-01 Y. T. Albert Law , Michael Zlotnikov

We explore scattering amplitudes on the Coulomb branch of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We introduce a particular pattern of scalar vacuum expectation values that allow us to define amplitudes with a different mass pattern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Wojciech Flieger , Johannes Henn , Anders Schreiber , Jaroslav Trnka