Asymptotic symmetries and celestial CFT

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DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2020)176zbMATH Open1454.81183arXiv2005.08990MaRDI QIDQ1995186FDOQ1995186


Authors: Laura Donnay, Sabrina Pasterski, Andrea Puhm Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 18 February 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a unified treatment of conformally soft Goldstone modes which arise when spin-one or spin-two conformal primary wavefunctions become pure gauge for certain integer values of the conformal dimension Delta. This effort lands us at the crossroads of two ongoing debates about what the appropriate conformal basis for celestial CFT is and what the asymptotic symmetry group of Einstein gravity at null infinity should be. Finite energy wavefunctions are captured by the principal continuous series Deltain1+imathbbR and form a complete basis. We show that conformal primaries with analytically continued conformal dimension can be understood as certain contour integrals on the principal series. This clarifies how conformally soft Goldstone modes fit in but do not augment this basis. Conformally soft gravitons of dimension two and zero which are related by a shadow transform are shown to generate superrotations and non-meromorphic diffeomorphisms of the celestial sphere which we refer to as shadow superrotations. This dovetails the Virasoro and Diff(S2) asymptotic symmetry proposals and puts on equal footing the discussion of their associated soft charges, which correspond to the stress tensor and its shadow in the two-dimensional celestial CFT.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.08990




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