Journal of High Energy Physics (Jul 2024)

Soft algebras for leaf amplitudes

  • Walker Melton,
  • Atul Sharma,
  • Andrew Strominger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)070
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 7
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract Celestial MHV amplitudes are comprised of non-distributional leaf amplitudes associated to an AdS3 leaf of a foliation of flat spacetime. It is shown here that the leaf amplitudes are governed by the same infinite-dimensional soft ‘S-algebra’ as their celestial counterparts. Moreover, taking the soft limit of the smooth three-point MHV leaf amplitude yields a nondegenerate minus-minus two-point leaf amplitude. The two- and three-point MHV leaf amplitudes are used to compute the plus-minus-minus leaf operator product coefficients.

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