Multicollinear Singularities in Celestial CFT

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العنوان: Multicollinear Singularities in Celestial CFT
المؤلفون: Ball, Adam, Hu, Yangrui, Pasterski, Sabrina
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: High Energy Physics - Theory
الوصف: The purpose of this paper is to study the holomorphic multicollinear limit of (celestial) amplitudes and use it to further investigate the double residue condition for (hard celestial) amplitudes and the celestial operator product expansion. We first set up the notion of holomorphic multicollinear limits of amplitudes and derive the 3-collinear splitting functions for Yang-Mills theory, Einstein gravity, and massless $\phi^3$ theory. In particular, we find that in $\phi^3$ theory the celestial 3-OPE contains a term with a branch cut. This explicit example confirms that branch cuts can obstruct the double residue condition for hard celestial amplitudes, which is the underlying cause of the celestial Jacobi identities not holding for certain theories. This addresses an ongoing debate in the literature about associativity of the celestial OPEs and concretely demonstrates a new (multi-particle) term in the celestial OPE coming from the multi-particle channel in the amplitudes.
Comment: 19 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2024)219
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16602
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2309.16602
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv