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Motivated by recent work on the utility of Mellin space for representing conformal correlators in $AdS$/CFT, we study its suitability for representing dual conformal integrals of the type which appear in perturbative scattering amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Miguel F. Paulos , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We argue that nonperturbative CFT correlation functions admit a Mellin amplitude representation. Perturbative Mellin representation readily follows. We discuss the main properties of nonperturbative CFT Mellin amplitudes: subtractions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Joao Penedones , Joao A. Silva , Alexander Zhiboedov

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

Cosmological correlators encode statistical properties of the initial conditions of our universe. Mathematically, they can often be written as Mellin integrals of a certain rational function associated to graphs, namely the flat space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Claudia Fevola , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Tom Westerdijk

Exploiting the analytic properties of the scattering amplitude, we provide an alternative but equivalent definition of the standard Mellin transform used to obtain celestial correlation functions. From this representation, we identify a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Eduardo Casali , Riccardo Giordana Pozzi

In this paper, we study celestial amplitudes of Goldstone bosons and conformal soft theorems. Motivated by the success of soft bootstrap in momentum space and the important role of the soft limit behavior of tree-level amplitudes, our goal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka , Petr Vasko

We present a general relation between celestial correlation functions in $d$-dimensions and Witten diagrams in $\left(d+1\right)$-dimensional Euclidean anti-de Sitter (EAdS) space, to all orders in perturbation theory. Contact diagram…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Lorenzo Iacobacci , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We present the first computation of three-point celestial amplitudes in Minkowski space of massless scalars, photons, gluons, and gravitons. Such amplitudes were previously considered to be zero in the literature because the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Chi-Ming Chang , Wen-Jie Ma

We present a universal treatment for imposing superconformal constraints on Mellin amplitudes for $\mathrm{SCFT_d}$ with $3\leq d\leq 6$. This leads to a new technique to compute holographic correlators, which is similar but complementary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Xinan Zhou

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

Celestial and momentum space amplitudes for massless particles are related to each other by a change of basis provided by the Mellin transform. Therefore properties of celestial amplitudes have counterparts in momentum space amplitudes and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Yangrui Hu , Lecheng Ren , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

In this paper, we create a Mellin space method for boundary correlation functions in de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces. We demonstrate that the analytic continuation between AdS${}_{d+1}$ and dS${}_{d+1}$ is encoded in a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Sayantan Choudhury

Scattering amplitudes are tempered distributions, which are defined through their action on functions in the Schwartz space $S(\mathbb{R})$ by duality. For massless particles, their conformal properties become manifest when considering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-18 Yorgo Pano , Majdouline Borji

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

It was argued recently that the holographic higher spin theory features non-local interactions. We further elaborate on these results using the Mellin representation. The main difficulty previously encountered on this way is that the Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-23 Dmitry Ponomarev

We introduce Mellin amplitudes for correlation functions of $k$ scalar operators and one operator with spin in conformal field theories (CFT) in general dimension. We show that Mellin amplitudes for scalar operators have simple poles with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 Vasco Gonçalves , João Penedones , Emilio Trevisani

We provide dramatic evidence that `Mellin space' is the natural home for correlation functions in CFTs with weakly coupled bulk duals. In Mellin space, CFT correlators have poles corresponding to an OPE decomposition into `left' and `right'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Joao Penedones , Suvrat Raju , Balt C. van Rees

We define a Mellin amplitude for CFT$_1$ four-point functions. Its analytical properties are inferred from physical requirements on the correlator. We discuss the analytic continuation that is necessary for a fully nonperturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Lorenzo Bianchi , Gabriel Bliard , Valentina Forini , Giulia Peveri

In this paper we systematically develop the flat/CFT holographic dictionary, building on AdS/CFT holography. After analysing the behaviour of scalar field modes on hyperbolic slices of Minkowski and performing the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-12 Zezhuang Hao , Marika Taylor

We compare and contrast the two approaches of holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes, viz. the co-dimension two Celestial approach based on the Mellin transformation and the co-dimension one Carrollian approach based on the modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-05 Arjun Bagchi , Prateksh Dhivakar , Sudipta Dutta