Associativity of celestial OPE, higher spins and self-duality

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contents We highlight and clarify the connection between several ideas and self-dual theories: (a) the operator product expansion (OPE) associativity in celestial conformal field theory (CCFT); (b) the vanishing of tree-level amplitudes; (c) the Jacobi identity for the "gauge" algebra; (d) the light-cone holomorphic constraints. Naturally, (b), (c), or (d) are closely related to self-duality. In particular, the recently classified arXiv:2505.12839 chiral higher-spin theories with one- and two-derivative interactions (i.e. with gauge and gravitational interactions, which are extensions of self-dual Yang-Mills and self-dual gravity) also satisfy the OPE associativity constraint. We discuss the OPE associativity constraint and the holomorphic constraint for the most general class of cubic vertices.
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spellingShingle Associativity of celestial OPE, higher spins and self-duality
Serrani, Mattia
High Energy Physics - Theory
We highlight and clarify the connection between several ideas and self-dual theories: (a) the operator product expansion (OPE) associativity in celestial conformal field theory (CCFT); (b) the vanishing of tree-level amplitudes; (c) the Jacobi identity for the "gauge" algebra; (d) the light-cone holomorphic constraints. Naturally, (b), (c), or (d) are closely related to self-duality. In particular, the recently classified arXiv:2505.12839 chiral higher-spin theories with one- and two-derivative interactions (i.e. with gauge and gravitational interactions, which are extensions of self-dual Yang-Mills and self-dual gravity) also satisfy the OPE associativity constraint. We discuss the OPE associativity constraint and the holomorphic constraint for the most general class of cubic vertices.
title Associativity of celestial OPE, higher spins and self-duality
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16804