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Partially Celestial States and Their Scattering Amplitudes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-12-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study representations of the Poincar\'e group that have a privileged transformation law along a p-dimensional hyperplane, and uncover their associated spinor helicity variables in D spacetime dimensions. Our novel representations generalize the recently introduced celestial states and transform as conformal primaries of SO(p,1), the symmetry group of the p-hyperplane. We will refer to our generalized states as ``partially celestial." Following Wigner's method, we find the induced representations, including spin degrees of freedom. Defining generalized spinor helicity variables for every D and p, we are able to construct the little group covariant part of partially celestial amplitudes. Finally, we briefly examine the application of the pairwise little group to partially celestial states with mutually non-local charges.

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@article{arxiv.2212.08672,
  title  = {Partially Celestial States and Their Scattering Amplitudes},
  author = {Csaba Csaki and Ofri Telem and John Terning},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.08672},
  year   = {2022}
}

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