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Celestial amplitudes provide holographic imprints of four-dimensional scattering processes in terms of conformal correlation functions on a two-dimensional sphere describing Minkowski space at null infinity. We construct the generators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor

We study celestial amplitudes in string theory at one-loop. Celestial amplitudes describe scattering processes of boost eigenstates and relate to amplitudes in the more standard basis of momentum eigenstates through a Mellin transform. They…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-10 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet , Hernán González , Andrea Puhm , Francisco Rojas

Four-dimensional all-loop amplitudes in QED and gravity exhibit universal Infrared (IR) singularities with a factorization structure. This structure is governed by tree amplitudes and a universal IR-divergent factor representing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-10 Song He , Pujian Mao , Xin-Cheng Mao

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

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

Inspired by ancient astronomy, we propose a holographic description of perturbative scattering amplitudes, as integrals over a `celestial sphere'. Since Lorentz invariance, local interactions, and particle propagations all take place in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-13 C. S. Lam

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 establish the nonperturbative celestial optical theorem from the unitarity of $S$-matrix. This theorem provides a set of nonperturbative bootstrap equations of the conformal partial wave (CPW) coefficients. The celestial optical theorem…

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

Holography can provide a microscopic interpretation of a gravitational solution as corresponding to a particular CFT state: the asymptotic expansion in gravity encodes the expectation values of operators in the dual CFT state. Such a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 Stefano Giusto , Sami Rawash , David Turton

A naive celestial dictionary causes massless two-point functions to take the delta-function forms in the celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). We rectify the dictionary, involving the shadow transformation so that the two-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

We consider 2-2 scattering in four spacetime dimensions in Celestial variables. Using the crossing symmetric dispersion relation (CSDR), we recast the Celestial amplitudes in terms of crossing symmetric partial waves. These partial waves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Sudip Ghosh , Prashanth Raman , Aninda Sinha

We explore the space of consistent three-particle couplings in $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric two-dimensional QFTs using two first-principles approaches. Our first approach relies solely on unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexandre Homrich , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

The relation between celestial holography and Liouville field theory is investigated. It is shown that duality relations between different Selberg type integrals appearing in the Coulomb gas realization of Liouville correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-07 Gaston Giribet

We study the holographic dual of a topological symmetry operator in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Symmetry operators arise from topological field theories localized on a subspace of the boundary CFT spacetime. We use bottom up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

Carrollian holography is a framework for flat space holography, suggesting that gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime in $D$ dimensions is dual to a conformal Carrollian field theory in $D - 1$ dimensions living at null infinity. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Harshal Kulkarni , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

Low multiplicity celestial amplitudes of gluons and gravitons tend to be distributional in the celestial coordinates $z,\bar z$. We provide a new systematic remedy to this situation by studying celestial amplitudes in a basis of light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-14 Atul Sharma

We review the role that infinite-dimensional symmetries arising at the boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes play in the context of the celestial holography program. Once recast into the language of conformal field theory, asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-20 Laura Donnay

We study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green-Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincar\'e symmetry, but no 2d superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam Tropper

Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be recast as correlators of conformal primary operators in a putative holographic CFT$_d$ by working in a basis of boost eigenstates instead of momentum eigenstates. It has been shown previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Prahar Mitra

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