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We discuss supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory coupled to dilatons in the framework of celestial holography. We show that in the presence of point-like dilaton sources, the CCFT operators associated with the gauge supermultiplet acquire a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

In (1+1)-d CFTs, the 4-point function on the plane can be mapped to the pillow geometry and thereby crossing symmetry gets translated into a modular property. We use these modular features to derive a universal asymptotic formula for OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Diptarka Das , Shouvik Datta , Sridip Pal

Recently, scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime have been interpreted as conformal correlation functions on the two-dimensional celestial sphere, the so-called celestial amplitudes. In this note we consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Livia Ferro , Robert Moerman

Celestial holography is the conjecture that scattering amplitudes in $(d+2)$-dimensional asymptotically Minkowski spacetimes are dual to correlators of a $d$-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) on the celestial sphere, called the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 Federico Capone , Andy O'Bannon , Ronnie Rodgers , Somyadip Thakur

In this note, we continue our study of Liouville theory and celestial amplitudes by deriving a set of partial differential equations governing the $n$-point MHV celestial amplitudes for gluons and gravitons, parametrised by the Liouville…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Igor Mol

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

Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi

Asymptotic symmetry plays an important role in determining physical observables of a theory. Recently, in the context of four dimensional asymptotically flat pure gravity and $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity, it has been proposed that OPEs of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-26 Nabamita Banerjee , Tabasum Rahnuma , Ranveer Kumar Singh

We compute scalar three-point celestial amplitudes involving two and three massive scalars. The three-point coefficient of celestial amplitudes with two massive scalars contains a hypergeometric function, and the one with three massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Reiko Liu , Wen-Jie Ma

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

Starting from the defining two-point and three-point functions of Celestial CFTs, Euclidean integral blocks are constructed for the OPE of scalar primaries. In their integral form they can alternatively be fixed using Poincar\'e symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-31 Alfredo Guevara

Scattering amplitudes in gauge theories can be calculated either by bulk theories in 4d Minkowski space-time($Mink_4$), or perceived as the correlation functions in celestial CFT(CCFT) living in the celestial sphere at null infinity, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Ming Yu

We show that the Mellin transform of an $n$-point tree level MHV gluon scattering amplitude, also known as the celestial amplitude in pure Yang-Mills theory, satisfies a system of $(n-2)$ linear first order partial differential equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh

The spinor-helicity formalism has become an invaluable tool for understanding the S-matrix of massless particles in four dimensions. In this paper we construct a spinor-helicity formalism in six dimensions, and apply it to derive compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 Clifford Cheung , Donal O'Connell

In this paper we study the BMS symmetry of the celestial OPE of two positive helicity gravitons in Einstein theory in four dimensions. The celestial OPE is obtained by Mellin transforming the scattering amplitude in the (holomorphic)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Shamik Banerjee , Sudip Ghosh , Riccardo Gonzo

Continuing our program of deriving aspects of celestial holography from string theory, we extend the Roiban-Spradlin-Volovich-Witten (RSVW) formalism to celestial amplitudes. We reformulate the tree-level maximally-helicity-violating (MHV)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-30 Igor Mol

We study two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory describing four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity/Yang-Mills systems and show that the underlying symmetry is a supersymmetric generalization of BMS symmetry. We construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

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

We study celestial amplitudes in (super) Yang-Mills theory using a parameterisation of the spinor helicity variables where their overall phase is not fixed by the little group action. In this approach the spin constraint $h-\bar{h}=J$ for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Andreas Brandhuber , Graham R. Brown , Joshua Gowdy , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

We reformulate the scattering amplitudes of 4D flat space gauge theory and gravity in the language of a 2D CFT on the celestial sphere. The resulting CFT structure exhibits an OPE constructed from 4D collinear singularities, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-16 Clifford Cheung , Anton de la Fuente , Raman Sundrum