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In this work, we formulate a set of rules for writing down $p$-adic Mellin amplitudes at tree-level. The rules lead to closed-form expressions for Mellin amplitudes for arbitrary scalar bulk diagrams. The prescription is recursive in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Christian Baadsgaard Jepsen , Sarthak Parikh

In this paper, we study the four-point celestial leaf amplitudes of massless scalar and MHV gluon scattering. These leaf amplitudes are non-distributional decompositions of the celestial amplitudes associated with a hyperbolic foliation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Raju Mandal , Sagnik Misra , Partha Paul , Baishali Roy

We propose an integral transformation for celestial gluon amplitudes that maps the celestial coordinates \((z_i,\bar z_i)\) to a new set of complex variables \((s_i,\bar s_i)\), inspired by the structure of closed string scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Aphiwat Yuenyong , Pongwit Srisangyingcharoen , Ekapong Hirunsirisawat , Tanapat Deesuwan

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

We show that associativity of the tree-level OPE in a celestial CFT imposes constraints on the coupling constants of the corresponding bulk theory. These constraints are the same as those derived in arXiv:2111.11356 from the Jacobi identity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Lecheng Ren , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

In AdS/CFT, we introduce a robust method for computing $n$-point gluon Mellin amplitudes, applicable in various spacetime dimensions. Using the Mellin transform and a recursive algorithm, we efficiently calculate tree-level gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Jinwei Chu , Savan Kharel

The Euklidean correlation functions and vacuum expectation values of products of field operators of some Lorentz spin and dimension are expressed through Mellin amplitudes which depend on complex dimensions subject to linear constraints.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-15 Gerhard Mack

We study scattering amplitudes in the shadow conformal primary basis, which satisfies the same defining properties as the original conformal primary basis and has many advantages over it. The shadow celestial amplitudes exhibit locality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Chi-Ming Chang , Wei Cui , Wen-Jie Ma , Hongfei Shu , Hao Zou

Symmetry Theories (SymThs) provide a flexible framework for analyzing the global categorical symmetries of a $D$-dimensional QFT$_{D}$ in terms of a $(D+1)$-dimensional bulk system SymTh$_{D+1}$. In QFTs realized via local string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner

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

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 study tree-level celestial amplitudes in Yang-Mills theory -- Mellin transforms of multi-gluon scattering amplitudes that convert them into the correlators of conformal primary fields on two-dimensional celestial sphere. By using purely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Tomasz R. Taylor

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 compute scattering amplitudes involving one massive scalar and two, three, or four gravitons. We show that when the conformal dimension of the massive scalar is set to zero, the resulting celestial correlators depend {\it only} on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-03 Adam Ball , Shounak De , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

Exploiting the analytic properties of the scattering amplitude, we provide an alternative but equivalent definition of the standard Mellin transform used to obtain celestial correlation functions. From this representation, we identify a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Eduardo Casali , Riccardo Giordana Pozzi

Self-dual theories are powerful toy models of their completions. It was shown recently that there are infinitely many SD-theories once massless higher-spin fields are allowed. The maximal SD-theory is chiral higher-spin gravity. Following…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Mattia Serrani , Evgeny Skvortsov

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

We investigate the celestial description of an eikonal amplitude for the scattering of massless scalars mediated by soft gravitons in the near-horizon region of a large eternal Schwarzschild black hole. Our construction thus provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Karan Fernandes , Feng-Li Lin , Arpita Mitra

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

Off-shell celestial amplitudes with both time-like and space-like external legs are defined. The Feynman rules for scalar amplitudes, viewed as a set of recursion relations for off-shell momentum space amplitudes, are transformed to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-28 Walker Melton