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We explore the Mellin representation of correlation functions in conformal field theories in the weak coupling regime. We provide a complete proof for a set of Feynman rules to write the Mellin amplitude for a general tree level Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-09 Amin A. Nizami , Arnab Rudra , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

At the tree level, the maximally helicity violating amplitudes of N gauge bosons in open superstring theory and of N gravitons in supergravity are known to have simple representations in terms of tree graphs. For superstrings, the graphs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

In any consistent massive quantum field theory there are well known bounds on scattering amplitudes at high energies. In conformal field theory there is no scattering amplitude, but the Mellin amplitude is a well defined object analogous to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Matthew Dodelson , Hirosi Ooguri

In this paper, we propose a $p$-adic analog of Mellin amplitudes for scalar operators, and present the computation of the general contact amplitude as well as arbitrary-point tree-level amplitudes for bulk diagrams involving up to three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-31 Christian Baadsgaard Jepsen , Sarthak Parikh

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

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 develop the embedding formalism for conformal field theories, aimed at doing computations with symmetric traceless operators of arbitrary spin. We use an index-free notation where tensors are encoded by polynomials in auxiliary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

We extend the recently established Mellin correspondence of supergravity and superstring amplitudes to the case of arbitrary helicity configurations. The amplitudes are discussed in the framework of Grassmannian varieties. We generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

The spectrum of half-BPS single-particle operators of the D1-D5 system in the supergravity regime is dual to the spectrum of Kaluza-Klein modes of tensor and graviton multiplets in AdS$_3\times$S$^3$. We present simple formulae for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 F. Aprile , C. Behan , R. S. Pitombo , M. Santagata

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

We perform a systematic bootstrap analysis of four-point one-loop Mellin amplitudes for super gluons in $\mathrm{AdS}_5\times\mathrm{S}^3$ with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein weights. The analysis produces the general expressions for these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Zhongjie Huang , Bo Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan , Xinan Zhou

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

We compute the Mellin amplitude of the planar four-point correlator of weight-two half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM at one and two-loop orders in the small 't Hooft coupling expansion. The two-loop Mellin amplitude has an infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Faizan Bhat , Pronobesh Maity

We propose a Mellin space approach to the evaluation of late-time momentum-space correlation functions of quantum fields in $\left(d+1\right)$-dimensional de Sitter space. The Mellin-Barnes representation makes manifest the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Charlotte Sleight

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 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

We show that the one-loop on-shell four-point scattering amplitude of massless $\phi^4$ scalar field theory in 4D Minkowski space time, when Mellin transformed to the Celestial sphere at infinity, transforms covariantly under the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Nabamita Banerjee , Shamik Banerjee , Sayali Atul Bhatkar , Sachin Jain

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 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

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