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We investigate the tree-level S-matrix in gauge theories and open superstring theory with several soft particles. We show that scattering amplitudes with two or three soft gluons of non-identical helicities behave universally in the limit,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-31 Anastasia Volovich , Congkao Wen , Michael Zlotnikov

Multi-collinear factorization limits provide a window to study how locality and unitarity of scattering amplitudes can emerge dynamically from celestial CFT, the conjectured holographic dual to gauge and gravitational theories in flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-05 Stephen Ebert , Atul Sharma , Diandian Wang

An often-exploited feature of the operator product expansion (OPE) is that it incorporates a splitting of ultraviolet and infrared physics. In this paper we use this feature of the OPE to perform simple, approximate computations of soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-06 Jean-François Fortin , Andreas Stergiou

In this work, we fix the leading term in the operator algebra of light-transformed operators in the context of flat space holography. Starting with light-transformed graviton correlators, we show that the OPE obtained by taking the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu

We carry out a detailed superspace analysis of the OPE of two N=2 stress-tensor multiplets. Knowledge of the multiplets appearing in the expansion, together with the two-dimensional chiral algebra description of N=2 SCFTs, imply an analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-16 Pedro Liendo , Israel Ramirez , Jihye Seo

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

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

Loop corrections in QED and gravity have recently been conjectured to give rise to an infinite tower of logarithmic soft theorems governing the universal low-energy behavior of photons and gravitons. We explore the implications of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 Sangmin Choi , Ameya Kadhe , Andrea Puhm

The calculation of physical quantities in certain quantum field theories such as those of the Argyres-Douglas type is notoriously hard, due to the lack of a Lagrangian description. Here we tackle this problem following two alternative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-06 Agnese Bissi , Francesco Fucito , Andrea Manenti , José Francisco Morales , Raffaele Savelli

We compute the celestial correlators corresponding to tree-level 5-gluon amplitudes in the type I superstring theory. Since celestial correlation functions are obtained by integrating over the full range of energies, there is no obvious…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Lina Castiblanco , Gaston Giribet , Gabriel Marin , Francisco Rojas

We derive a nonperturbative, convergent operator product expansion (OPE) for null-integrated operators on the same null plane in a CFT. The objects appearing in the expansion are light-ray operators, whose matrix elements can be computed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Murat Kologlu , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov

Using the ambitwistor string, we compute tree-level celestial amplitudes for biadjoint scalars, Yang-Mills and gravity to all multiplicities. They are presented in compact CHY-like formulas with operator-valued scattering equations and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Eduardo Casali , Atul Sharma

Marginal operators in a d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT), those with conformal dimension $\Delta=d$, give us information about the space of related theories. This can be incredibly useful when trying to develop an intrinsic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Sruthi A. Narayanan

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

The four-dimensional $S$-matrix is reconsidered as a correlator on the celestial sphere at null infinity. Asymptotic particle states can be characterized by the point at which they enter or exit the celestial sphere as well as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Laura Donnay , Andrea Puhm , Andrew Strominger

We present new asymptotic formulas for the distribution of OPE coefficients in conformal field theories. These formulas involve products of four or more coefficients and include light-light-heavy as well as heavy-heavy-heavy contributions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-15 Tarek Anous , Alexandre Belin , Jan de Boer , Diego Liska

This paper presents a systematic cataloging of the generators of celestial symmetries on phase space. Starting from the celestial OPEs, we first show how to extract a representation of the general-spin analog of the wedge subalgebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

Celestial holography suggests, among other things, that collinear singularities of graviton scattering amplitudes are described by the OPEs of some putative dual CFT. One of the great successes has been the insight that this duality is true…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Simon Heuveline

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) limit of correlation functions in field theories which possess string theory duals, from the point of view of the string worldsheet. We show how the interesting ("single-trace") terms in the OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Ofer Aharony , Zohar Komargodski

Conventional massless celestial amplitudes are distributional and fail to realize the celestial OPE -- most sharply in the non-MHV paradox, where OPEs predict nonzero celestial amplitudes with helicities $-{+}{+}+$ that are known to vanish…

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