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Main Authors: Ghorai, Nirmal, Paul, Partha, Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03669
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author Ghorai, Nirmal
Paul, Partha
Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
author_facet Ghorai, Nirmal
Paul, Partha
Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
contents We compute tree-level celestial operator product expansions (OPE) in a bosonic sub-sector of the Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity from the scattering amplitudes in the MHV configuration. While the OPE between a leading soft graviton current for a positive helicity graviton and any of the primary operators exhibits the same singularity structure as in a gravitational theory with two-derivative kinetic terms, the OPE of a subleading soft graviton current with a positive helicity hard graviton primary operator receives corrections, as a consequence of the non-universal nature of the subleading soft graviton theorem in the bulk. Remarkably, the subleading soft graviton terms remain consistent with the Ward identity of the chiral $\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{R}) $ current algebra, albeit with a different realisation where particle-changing operators play a role. Our analysis suggests that the dual celestial CFT continues to enjoy at least the chiral $\mathfrak{bms}_4$ symmetry, though in a non-trivial way, and possibly a conformal extension of it.
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spellingShingle Towards celestial CFT dual of 4d conformal gravity: I
Ghorai, Nirmal
Paul, Partha
Suryanarayana, Nemani V.
High Energy Physics - Theory
We compute tree-level celestial operator product expansions (OPE) in a bosonic sub-sector of the Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity from the scattering amplitudes in the MHV configuration. While the OPE between a leading soft graviton current for a positive helicity graviton and any of the primary operators exhibits the same singularity structure as in a gravitational theory with two-derivative kinetic terms, the OPE of a subleading soft graviton current with a positive helicity hard graviton primary operator receives corrections, as a consequence of the non-universal nature of the subleading soft graviton theorem in the bulk. Remarkably, the subleading soft graviton terms remain consistent with the Ward identity of the chiral $\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb{R}) $ current algebra, albeit with a different realisation where particle-changing operators play a role. Our analysis suggests that the dual celestial CFT continues to enjoy at least the chiral $\mathfrak{bms}_4$ symmetry, though in a non-trivial way, and possibly a conformal extension of it.
title Towards celestial CFT dual of 4d conformal gravity: I
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03669