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We study four-point functions of spinning operators in the flavor current multiplet in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs, using superspace techniques. In particular we explicitly construct the differential operators relating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-26 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Andrea Manenti , Xinan Zhou

In celestial holography, scattering particles in four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes are dual to conformal primary field operators on the celestial sphere. Multi-particle celestial operators can be formed from regularized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Mathew Calkins , Monica Pate

We investigate the anomaly-induced activation of a gauge-invariant scalar degree of freedom in General Relativity, the conformalon mode, directly at the level of \(2\to2\) scattering amplitudes. The analysis couples anomalous three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Claudio Corianò , Stefano Lionetti , Dario Melle , Leonardo Torcellini

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

Both 3- and 4-point scattering amplitudes for spin-1 massless particles (gluons) and spin-2 massless particles (gravitons) are reviewed through self-contained step-by-step derivation. Gluon and graviton interactions are computed from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-12 Abhilash Mathews

Shadow formalism is a technique in two-dimensional CFT allowing straightforward computation of conformal blocks in the limit of infinitely large central charge. We generalize the construction of shadow operator for superconformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Vladimir Belavin , Juan Ramos Cabezas , Boris Runov

The conformal anomaly for 4D gravity-matter theories, which are non-minimally coupled with the dilaton, is systematically studied. Special care is taken for: rescaling of fields, treatment of total derivatives, hermiticity of the system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shoichi Ichinose , Sergei D. Odintsov

We show that, given a two-dimensional realization of the celestial OPE in self-dual Yang-Mills, we can find a scalar source around which scattering amplitudes replicate correlation functions computed from the 2D `gluon' operators in a limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-02 Walker Melton , Sruthi A. Narayanan

We present new soft theorems for photon, gluon, and graviton correlators at tree level in (Anti)-de Sitter space. The results are derived by applying conformal Ward identities to constrain the structure of Witten diagrams.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Jiajie Mei , Yuyu Mo

We study CFT$_2$ Virasoro conformal blocks of the 4-point correlation function $\langle \mathcal{O}_L \mathcal{O}_H \mathcal{O}_H \mathcal{O}_H \rangle $ with three background operators $\mathcal{O}_H$ and one perturbative operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 K. B. Alkalaev , Mikhail Pavlov

We study five-dimensional gravity models with non-vanishing background scalar fields which are dual to non-conformal boundary field theories. We develop a procedure to decouple the graviton fluctuations from the scalar ones and apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Arutyunov , S. Frolov , S. Theisen

We revisit the standard construction of the celestial stress tensor as a shadow of the subleading conformally soft graviton. In its original formulation there is an obstruction to reproducing the expected TT OPE in the double soft limit. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Shamik Banerjee , Sabrina Pasterski

We study real-time holographic four point Wightman functions involving scalars, photons, gluons and gravitons in the Poincare patch of AdS$_4$. We show that when the momenta of the middle two operators are spacelike, four-point exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Arhum Ansari , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S

In this paper we evaluate the modified celestial amplitude for gravitons and gluons, as defined in arXiv:1801.10171[hep-th]. We find that the modified (tree) amplitude is finite for gravitons in Einstein gravity. The modified amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Pranjal Pandey , Arnab Priya Saha

We extend recent results on semi-classical conformal blocks in 2d CFT and their relation to 3D gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider four-point functions with two heavy and two light external operators, along with the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , River Snively

We present a classification of conformally-invariant three-point tensor structures in $d$ dimensions that parallels the classification of three-particle scattering amplitudes in $d+1$ dimensions. Using a set of canonically-normalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Hayden Lee , Xinkang Wang

We work out all of the details required for implementation of the conformal bootstrap program applied to the four-point function of two scalars and two vectors in an abstract conformal field theory in arbitrary dimension. This includes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Fernando Rejon-Barrera , Daniel Robbins

Celestial holography expresses $\mathcal{S}$-matrix elements as correlators in a CFT living on the night sky. Poincar\'e invariance imposes additional selection rules on the allowed positions of operators. As a consequence, $n$-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Sebastian Mizera , Sabrina Pasterski

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

Angular cosmological correlators are infamously difficult to compute due to the highly oscillatory nature of the projection integrals. Motivated by recent development on analytic approaches to cosmological perturbation theory, in this paper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Hayden Lee , Cora Dvorkin