Journal of High Energy Physics (Aug 2023)

An integer basis for celestial amplitudes

  • Jordan Cotler,
  • Noah Miller,
  • Andrew Strominger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2023)192
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 8
pp. 1 – 24

Abstract

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Abstract We present a discrete basis of solutions of the massless Klein-Gordon equation in 3 + 1 Minkowski space which transform as 𝔰𝔩(2, ℂ) Lorentz/conformal primaries and descendants, and whose elements all have integer conformal dimension. We show that the basis is complete in the sense that the Wightman function can be expressed as a quadratic sum over the basis elements.

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