Celestial sector in CFT: Conformally soft symmetries
Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia, Ana-Maria Raclariu
SciPost Phys. 17, 002 (2024) · published 2 July 2024
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.1.002
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Abstract
We show that time intervals of width $\Delta \tau$ in 3-dimensional conformal field theories (CFT$_3$) on the Lorentzian cylinder admit an infinite dimensional symmetry enhancement in the limit $\Delta \tau → 0$. The associated vector fields are approximate solutions to the conformal Killing equations in the strip labelled by a function and a conformal Killing vector on the sphere. An Inonu-Wigner contraction yields a set of symmetry generators obeying the extended BMS$_4$ algebra. We analyze the shadow stress tensor Ward identities in CFT$_d$ on the Lorentzian cylinder with all operator insertions in infinitesimal time intervals separated by $\pi$. We demonstrate that both the leading and subleading conformally soft graviton theorems in $(d-1)$-dimensional celestial CFT (CCFT$_{d-1}$) can be recovered from the transverse traceless components of these Ward identities in the limit $\Delta \tau → 0$. A similar construction allows for the leading conformally soft gluon theorem in CCFT$_{d-1}$ to be recovered from shadow current Ward identities in CFT$_d$.
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See all Organizations.- 1 Universidade Estadual de Campinas / State University of Campinas [UNICAMP]
- 2 Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam [IoP, UvA]