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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 the bottom-up approach to celestial holography, it is tempting to define celestial amplitudes by transforming momentum-space amplitudes order by order in perturbation theory. We test this prescription in the exactly solvable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Adam Tropper

In celestial conformal field theory (CCFT), the 4d massless scalars are represented by 2d conformal operators with conformal dimensions $h=\bar{h}=(1+i\lambda)/2$. The Mellin transform of 4d massless scalar amplitudes gives the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Wei Fan

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

We start by observing that the light-ray operators featured in the conformal collider literature are celestial primaries. This allows us to rephrase the corresponding 4D CFT correlators as probing a conformally soft matter sector of the 2D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

Carrollian holography is a framework for flat space holography, suggesting that gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime in $D$ dimensions is dual to a conformal Carrollian field theory in $D - 1$ dimensions living at null infinity. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Harshal Kulkarni , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

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 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

We use tools from conformal representation theory to classify the symmetries associated to conformally soft operators in celestial CFT (CCFT) in general dimensions $d$. The conformal multiplets in $d>2$ take the form of celestial necklaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Yorgo Pano , Andrea Puhm , Emilio Trevisani

We show that time intervals of width $\Delta \tau$ in 3-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT$_3$) on the Lorentzian cylinder admit an infinite dimensional symmetry enhancement in the limit $\Delta \tau \rightarrow 0$. The associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-20 Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia , Ana-Maria Raclariu

We examine the structure of global conformal multiplets in 2D celestial CFT. For a 4D bulk theory containing massless particles of spin $s=\{0,\frac{1}{2},1,\frac{3}{2},2\}$ we classify and construct all SL(2,$\mathbb{C}$) primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Sabrina Pasterski , Andrea Puhm , Emilio Trevisani

We compute the celestial correlators corresponding to tree-level 5-gluon amplitudes in the type I superstring theory. Since celestial correlation functions are obtained by integrating over the full range of energies, there is no obvious…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Lina Castiblanco , Gaston Giribet , Gabriel Marin , Francisco Rojas

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

Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories can be calculated either by bulk theories in 4d Minkowski space-time($Mink_4$), or perceived as the correlation functions in celestial CFT(CCFT) living in the celestial sphere at null infinity, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Ming Yu

We compute scattering amplitudes involving one massive scalar and two, three, or four gravitons. We show that when the conformal dimension of the massive scalar is set to zero, the resulting celestial correlators depend {\it only} on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Adam Ball , Shounak De , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

We present a comprehensive discussion of renormalisation of 3-point functions of scalar operators in conformal field theories in general dimension. We have previously shown that conformal symmetry uniquely determines the momentum-space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-15 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

In a conformal field theory, two and three-point functions of scalar operators and conserved currents are completely determined, up to constants, by conformal invariance. The expressions for these correlators in Euclidean signature are long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Teresa Bautista , Hadi Godazgar

Carrollian Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have been proposed as co-dimension one holographic duals to asymptotically flat spacetimes as opposed to Celestial CFTs which are co-dimension two. In this paper, drawing inspiration from Celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Arjun Bagchi , Prateksh Dhivakar , Sudipta Dutta

Celestial amplitudes obtained from Mellin transforming 4d momentum space scattering amplitudes contain distributional delta functions, hindering the application of conventional CFT techniques. In this paper, we propose to bypass this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Wei Bu , Sean Seet

4D Lorentzian conformal field theory (CFT) is mapped into 5D anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS), from the viewpoint of "geometrizing" conformal current algebra. A large-N expansion of the CFT is shown to lead to (infinitely many) weakly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Raman Sundrum