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Goldstone bosons on celestial sphere and conformal soft theorems

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Charles Univ., Prague (Czech Republic)
  2. Charles Univ., Prague (Czech Republic); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics (QMAP)
In this paper, we study celestial amplitudes of Goldstone bosons and conformal soft theorems. Motivated by the success of soft bootstrap in momentum space and the important role of the soft limit behavior of tree-level amplitudes, our goal is to extend some of the methods to the celestial sphere. The crucial ingredient of the calculation is the Mellin transformation, which transforms four-dimensional scattering amplitudes to correlation functions of primary operators in the celestial CFT. The soft behavior of the amplitude is then translated to the singularities of the correlator. Only for amplitudes in “UV completed theories” (with sufficiently good high energy behavior) the Mellin integration can be properly performed. In all other cases, the celestial amplitude is only defined in a distributional sense with delta functions. We provide many examples of celestial amplitudes in UV-completed models, including linear sigma models and Z-theory, which is a certain completion of the SU(N) non-linear sigma model. We also comment on the BCFW-like and soft recursion relations for celestial amplitudes and the extension of soft bootstrap ideas.
Research Organization:
Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
MEYS; The Czech Science Foundation (GACR); USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009999
OSTI ID:
2576178
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 2023; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer NatureCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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