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On Positive Celestial Geometry: ABHY in the Sky

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-19 v1

Abstract

Celestial amplitudes are multiple Mellin transforms w.r.t. conformal dimensions. For arbitrary multiplicity nn of massless states in sufficiently high space--time dimension DD we perform all Mellin integrations and find an associahedron description in celestial space. The latter expresses celestial tree--level ϕ3\phi^3 amplitudes as the canonical forms associated with this positive geometry. This yields a geometric interpretation of celestial amplitudes in terms of the underlying boundary geometry. In particular, distributional support on the celestial sphere is not imposed but arises geometrically. Our universal treatment of Mellin integrals in DD dimensions also provides a unified description of celestial amplitudes arising from different bulk theories, including (scalar-scaffolded) gluons and gravitons.

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@article{arxiv.2512.15852,
  title  = {On Positive Celestial Geometry: ABHY in the Sky},
  author = {Jin Dong and Stephan Stieberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15852},
  year   = {2025}
}

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6+4 pages, 1+1 figures

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