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We argue that the conventional method to calculate the OPE coefficients in the strong coupling limit for heavy-heavy-light operators in the N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory has to be modified by integrating the light vertex operator not only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Zoltan Bajnok , Romuald A. Janik , Andrzej Wereszczynski

In this paper we describe how to implement symmetries on a canonical noncommutative spacetime. We focus on noncommutative Lorentz transformations. We then discuss the structure of the light cone on a canonical noncommutative spacetime and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-04-23 Xavier Calmet

In this work, we study the quantization of Carrollian conformal scalar theories, including two-dimensional(2D) magnetic scalar and three-dimensional(3D) electric and magnetic scalars. We discuss two different quantization schemes, depending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Bin Chen , Haowei Sun , Yu-fan Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to study the holomorphic multicollinear limit of (celestial) amplitudes and use it to further investigate the double residue condition for (hard celestial) amplitudes and the celestial operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-01 Adam Ball , Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

We compute one-loop corrections to the OPE of gluons in the celestial conformal field theory corresponding to Yang-Mills coupled to arbitrary matter. We exploit universal hard/soft factorization to derive an IR finite OPE for the hard gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Luke Lippstreu , Lecheng Ren , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories (LCFT) play a key role, for instance, in the description of critical geometrical problems (percolation, self avoiding walks, etc.), or of critical points in several classes of disordered systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-22 A. M. Gainutdinov , J. L. Jacobsen , N. Read , H. Saleur , R. Vasseur

The operator product expansion of massless celestial primary operators of arbitrary spin is investigated. Poincar\'e symmetry is found to imply a set of recursion relations on the operator product expansion coefficients of the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Elizabeth Himwich , Monica Pate , Kyle Singh

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

Quantum mechanical transition amplitudes directly tells the probability of each transition and which one is more favourable. Path-integrals offers a systematic methodology to compute this quantum mechanical process in a consistent manner.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-17 Gaurav Narain , Hai-Qing Zhang

We investigate the ambiguities in the Fock quantization of the scalar perturbations of a Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker model with a massive scalar field as matter content. We consider the case of compact spatial sections (thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-21 Mikel Fernández-Méndez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Javier Olmedo , José M. Velhinho

In the present study, we analyze in combination the principles of special relativity and the phenomenon of the aberration of light, deriving a system of equations that allows establishing the relationship between the angles commonly…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Diego Roldan , Rodrigo Sempertegui , Francisco Roldan

Celestial amplitudes may be decomposed as weighted integrals of AdS$_3$-Witten diagrams associated to each leaf of a hyperbolic foliation of spacetime. We show, for the Kleinian three-point MHV amplitude, that each leaf subamplitude is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

We investigate the heavy-light four-point function up to double-stress-tensor, supplementing 1910.06357. By using the OPE coefficients of lowest-twist double-stress-tensor in the literature, we find the Regge behavior for lowest-twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Yue-Zhou Li , Hao-Yu Zhang

CFTs in Euclidean signature satisfy well-accepted rules, such as the convergent Euclidean OPE. It is nowadays common to assume that CFT correlators exist and have various properties also in Lorentzian signature. Some of these properties may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Petr Kravchuk , Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

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

Celestial amplitudes, obtained by applying Mellin transform and analytic continuation on "ordinary" amplitudes, have interesting properties which may provide useful insights on the underlying theory. Their analytic structures are thus of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Jiayin Gu , Ying-Ying Li , Lian-Tao Wang

We explore the OPE of certain twist operators in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs, extending our previous work arXiv:1804.01562 to the case of $\mathcal{N}=(4,4)$ supersymmetry. We consider a class of twist operators related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas de Beer , Benjamin A. Burrington , Ian T. Jardine , A. W. Peet

The calculation of physical quantities in certain quantum field theories such as those of the Argyres-Douglas type is notoriously hard, due to the lack of a Lagrangian description. Here we tackle this problem following two alternative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Agnese Bissi , Francesco Fucito , Andrea Manenti , José Francisco Morales , Raffaele Savelli

Correlation functions of energy flow operators (energy-energy correlators) are one of the simplest observables in quantum field theory and gravity, with diverse applications ranging from real world collider physics to constraining the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult , Matthew T. Walters , Yuan Xin

The efficient manipulation, sorting, and measurement of optical modes and single-photon states is fundamental to classical and quantum science. Here, we realise simultaneous and efficient sorting of non-orthogonal, overlapping states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Suraj Goel , Max Tyler , Feng Zhu , Saroch Leedumrongwatthanakun , Mehul Malik , Jonathan Leach