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Recently, twistor-like formulations of tree amplitudes involving $n$ massless particles have been proposed for various 6D supersymmetric theories. The formulas are based on two different forms of the scattering equations: one based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 John H. Schwarz , Congkao Wen

We investigate the structure of the constraints on three-point correlation functions emerging when conformal invariance is imposed in momentum space and in arbitrary space-time dimensions, presenting a derivation of their solutions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Emil Mottola , Mirko Serino

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

The aim of this paper is to study three dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theories in twistor space. We formulate the conformal Ward identities and solve for two and three point Lorentzian Wightman functions. We found that the Helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Deep Mazumdar , Vibhor Singh

In conformal field theory in Minkowski momentum space, the 3-point correlation functions of local operators are completely fixed by symmetry. Using Ward identities together with the existence of a Lorentzian operator product expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-24 Marc Gillioz

A quantum-field model of the conformally flat space is formulated using a standard field-theoretical technique, a probability interpretation and a way to establish the classical limit. The starting point is the following: after conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri G. Palii

Gravitational instantons ''Lambda-instantons'' are defined here for any given value Lambda of the cosmological constant. A multiple of the Euler characteristic appears as an upper bound for the de Sitter action and as a lower bound for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Bernard Julia , Jerome Levie , Sebastien Ray

We build upon previous investigation of the one-dimensional conformal symmetry of the Friedman-Lema\^ itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology of a free scalar field and make it explicit through a reformulation of the theory at the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Jibril Ben Achour , Etera R. Livine

We uncover a combinatorial structure governing the differential equations satisfied by wavefunction coefficients of scalar fields with generic masses in de Sitter space. Using an integral representation of the massive mode functions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Daniel Baumann , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Kamran Salehi Vaziri

Homogeneous isotropic spatial flat cosmological models with two torsion functions in vacuum are built and investigated in the framework of de Sitter gauge theory of gravity. It is shown that by certain choices of parameters of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-18 Guo-Ying Qi

A new cosmological theory is proposed in the theoretical framework of modified gravity theories which is based on a tachyonic field non-minimally coupled with a specific topological invariant constructed with third order contractions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Mihai Marciu

''Massless'' spin-2 field equation in de Sitter space, which is invariant under the conformal transformation, has been obtained. The frame work utilized is the symmetric rank-2 tensor field of the conformal group. Our method is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-18 M. Dehghani , S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook , M. R. Tanhayi

In this paper, the two-point function of linearized gravitons on de Sitter (dS) space is presented. Technically, respecting the dS ambient space notation, the field equation is given by the coordinate-independent Casimir operators of the de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-16 Hamed Pejhan , Surena Rahbardehghan

We present a covariant quantization scheme for the so-called "partially massless" graviton field in de Sitter spacetime. Our approach is founded on the principles of the de Sitter group representation theory (in the sense given by Wigner),…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Hamed Pejhan

We construct a quadratic Morse-Bott function on the real Grassmannian of a symplectic vector space from a compatible linear complex structure. We show that its critical loci consist of linear subspaces that split into isotropic and complex…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Hyunmoon Kim

We prove the formula for the complete tree-level $S$-matrix of $\mathcal{N}=8$ supergravity recently conjectured by two of the authors. The proof proceeds by showing that the new formula satisfies the same BCFW recursion relations that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-02 Freddy Cachazo , Lionel Mason , David Skinner

We investigate the principles of quantum field theory using a stiff de Sitter space. We demonstrate that a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean AdS geometry can produce the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 Sayantan Choudhury

We consider soft graviton scattering for a theory where Einstein's gravity is minimally coupled to a scalar field in the presence of a cosmological constant, i.e. in a background de Sitter space. Employing a perturbative expansion in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Divyesh N. Solanki , Pratik Chattopadhyay , Srijit Bhattacharjee

We develop a conformally invariant (CI) framework in $(1+3)$-dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetime, that unifies the descriptions of graviton, ``partially massless'' graviton, and photon fields. This framework is grounded in a rigorous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-09 Jean-Pierre Gazeau , Hamed Pejhan

Respecting the group theoretical approach, it is debated that the theory of linear conformal gravity should be formulated through a tensor field of rank-3 and mixed symmetry \cite{binegar}. Pursuing this path, such a field equation was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Rahbardehghan , H. Pejhan , M. Elmizadeh