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We revisit the prescription commonly used to define holographic correlators on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space as an integral transform of flat space scattering amplitudes, known as celestial amplitudes. We propose a resolution to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

Holographic correlators on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space were recently defined in arXiv:2301.01810 as the extrapolation of bulk time-ordered correlation functions to the celestial sphere. In this work we explore the Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Francesca Pacifico , Paolo Pergola , Charlotte Sleight

We develop a split representation for celestial amplitudes in celestial holography, by cutting internal lines of Feynman diagrams in Minkowski space. More explicitly, the bulk-to-bulk propagators associated with the internal lines are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Chi-Ming Chang , Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

The extended BMS algebra contains a conformal subgroup that acts on the celestial sphere as SO(3,1). It is of interest to perform mode expansions of free fields in Minkowski spacetime that realize this symmetry in a simple way. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Chang Liu , David A. Lowe

In this work we continue the investigation of the extrapolate dictionary for celestial holography recently proposed in [2301.01810], at both the perturbative and non-perturbative level. Focusing on scalar field theories, we give a complete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-31 Lorenzo Iacobacci , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

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

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Dhritiman Nandan , Anders Schreiber , Anastasia Volovich , Michael Zlotnikov

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

The decomposition of 4-point correlation functions into conformal partial waves is a central tool in the study of conformal field theory. We compute these partial waves for scalar operators in Minkowski momentum space, and find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Marc Gillioz

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 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

A natural extension of the Pasterski-Shao-Strominger (PSS) prescription is described, enabling the map of Minkowski space amplitudes with massive spinning external legs to the celestial sphere to be performed. An integral representation for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Y. T. Albert Law , Michael Zlotnikov

Celestial holography provides a promising avenue to studying bulk scattering in flat spacetime from the perspective of boundary celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). A key ingredient in connecting the two sides is the celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Hongliang Jiang

We study general properties of the conformal basis, the space of wavefunctions in $(d+2)$-dimensional Minkowski space that are primaries of the Lorentz group $SO(1,d+1)$. Scattering amplitudes written in this basis have the same symmetry as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Ho Tat Lam , Shu-Heng Shao

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

We develop a time-domain numerical framework for global scalar wave scattering in Minkowski spacetime. The main contribution is an exact conformal matching of three compactified regions: a past hyperboloidal domain attached to $\mathscr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Ekrem S Demirboğa , Anıl Zenginoğlu

We transform the one-loop four-point type $\mathrm{I}$ open superstring gluon amplitude to correlation functions on the celestial sphere including both the (non-)orientable planar and non-planar sector. This requires a Mellin transform with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 Daniel Bockisch

We provide a concrete link between celestial amplitudes and cosmological correlators. We first construct a map from quantum field theories (QFTs) in $(D+2)$-dimensional Euclidean space to theories on the $(D+1)$-dimensional sphere, through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

We develop a flat-space holographic dictionary for a free massive spinor field in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, using the hyperbolic (Milne) slicing into $\mathbb H^3$ (Euclidean $\mathrm{AdS}_3$). Decomposing bulk fields into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Dmitry S. Ageev , Anna S. Bernakevich

Celestial amplitudes provide holographic imprints of four-dimensional scattering processes in terms of conformal correlation functions on a two-dimensional sphere describing Minkowski space at null infinity. We construct the generators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor
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