Celestial OPE blocks

Abstract

Starting from the defining two-point and three-point functions of Celestial CFTs, Euclidean integral blocks are constructed for the OPE of scalar primaries. In their integral form they can alternatively be fixed using Poincaré symmetry acting on both massless and massive states. Subsequently, an analytic continuation is done to define the Lorentzian version of the correlation functions and the OPE blocks as valued on the $(1,1)$ cylinder, the universal cover of the recently studied celestial torus. The continuation is essentially the same that is used in the derivation of the KLT relations for string amplitudes. It is shown explicitly that the continued OPE blocks encode the contributions from massive primary states as well as their shadow and light-transformed partners of continuous spin. The corresponding pairings are also studied, thus the construction provides the fundamental relation between correlation functions and OPE coefficients in the scalar CCFT.

arXiv comment25 pages, 2 figures

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