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We study a model for nonperturbative unitarization of the four-point contact scalar amplitude in four dimensions. It is defined through an infinite sum of planar diagrams, constructed using two-particle unitarity and crossing symmetry. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Mehmet Asim Gumus , Damien Leflot , Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

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

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

The soft limits of scattering amplitudes have been extensively studied due to their essential role in the computation of physical observables in collider physics. The universal factorisation that occurs in these kinematic limits has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm , Ana-Maria Raclariu

Celestial holography posits that the long-distance behavior of gauge and gravity theories is dictated by two-dimensional conformal field theories defined on the celestial sphere. For non-abelian gauge theories, this proposal is verified, to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lorenzo Magnea , Enrico Zunino

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

In this work, we develop machine learning techniques to study nonperturbative scattering amplitudes. We focus on the two-to-two scattering amplitude of identical scalar particles, setting the double discontinuity to zero as a simplifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Mehmet Asim Gumus , Damien Leflot , Piotr Tourkine , Alexander Zhiboedov

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

The infrared behavior of gravity in 4D asymptotically flat spacetime exhibits a rich set of symmetries. This has led to a proposed holographic duality between the gravitational $\mathcal{S}$-matrix and a dual field theory living on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Sabrina Pasterski , Herman Verlinde

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

In this paper, we study codimension two holography in flat spacetimes, based on the idea of the wedge holography. We propose that a region in a $d+1$ dimensional flat spacetime surrounded by two end of the world-branes, which are given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Naoki Ogawa , Tadashi Takayanagi , Takashi Tsuda , Takahiro Waki

Celestial amplitudes which use conformal primary wavefunctions rather than plane waves as external states offer a novel opportunity to study properties of amplitudes with manifest conformal covariance and give insight into a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Eduardo Casali , Andrea Puhm

We bootstrap the S-matrix of massless particles in unitary, relativistic two dimensional quantum field theories. We find that the low energy expansion of such S-matrices is strongly constrained by the existence of a UV completion. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-05 Joan Elias Miro , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Aditya Hebbar , Joao Penedones , Pedro Vieira

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

We review the role that infinite-dimensional symmetries arising at the boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes play in the context of the celestial holography program. Once recast into the language of conformal field theory, asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-20 Laura Donnay

Four-dimensional all-loop amplitudes in QED and gravity exhibit universal Infrared (IR) singularities with a factorization structure. This structure is governed by tree amplitudes and a universal IR-divergent factor representing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Song He , Pujian Mao , Xin-Cheng Mao

We derive a simple relation between the Mellin amplitude for AdS/CFT correlation functions and the bulk S-Matrix in the flat spacetime limit, proving a conjecture of Penedones. As a consequence of the Operator Product Expansion, the Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

The Bullough-Dodd model is an important two dimensional integrable field theory which finds applications in physics and geometry. We consider a conformally invariant extension of it, and study its integrability properties using a zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. E. G. Assis , L. A. Ferreira

These notes consist of 3 lectures on celestial holography given at the Pre-Strings school 2021. We start by reviewing how semiclassically, the subleading soft graviton theorem implies an enhancement of the Lorentz symmetry of scattering in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Ana-Maria Raclariu

At leading order, the $S$-matrices in QED and gravity are known to factorise, providing unambiguous determinations of the parts divergent due to infrared contributions. The soft $S$-matrices defined in this fashion are shown to be defined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-17 Nikhil Kalyanapuram