Conformally soft photons and gravitons

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2019)184MaRDI QIDQ667271zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Laura Donnay, Andrea Puhm, Andrew Strominger

Publication date 12 March 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05219

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondencegauge symmetryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: The four-dimensional $S$-matrix is reconsidered as a correlator on the celestial sphere at null infinity. Asymptotic particle states can be characterized by the point at which they enter or exit the celestial sphere as well as their $SL(2,mathbbC)$ Lorentz quantum numbers: namely their conformal scaling dimension and spin $$ instead of the energy and momentum. This characterization precludes the notion of a soft particle whose energy is taken to zero. We propose it should be replaced by the notion of a conformally soft particle with $h=0$ or $$. For photons we explicitly construct conformally soft $SL(2,mathbbC)$ currents with dimensions $(1,0)$ and identify them with the generator of a $U(1)$ Kac-Moody symmetry on the celestial sphere. For gravity the generator of celestial conformal symmetry is constructed from a $(2,0)$ $SL(2,mathbbC)$ primary wavefunction. Interestingly, BMS supertranslations are generated by a spin-one weight $(frac32,frac12)$ operator, which nevertheless shares holomorphic characteristics of a conformally soft operator. This is because the right hand side of its OPE with a weight $$ operator $$ involves the shifted operator $$. This OPE relation looks quite unusual from the celestial CFT${}_2$ perspective but is equivalent to the leading soft graviton theorem and may usefully constrain celestial correlators in quantum gravity.

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