| Title : |
Carrollian Approach to Flat Holography |
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| Speaker | : | Amartya Saha, IIT Kanpur |
| Date | : | April 09, 2026 |
| Time | : | 3:30 PM |
| Venue | : | Seminar room 3307 |
| Abstract | : |
The isomorphism between the BMS_4 algebra and the 3D
Carrollian conformal algebra hints towards a co-dimensional one
formalism of flat space holography with the field theory residing on the
null-boundary of the asymptotically flat spacetime (AFS) enjoying a 3D
Carrollian conformal symmetry. I shall first show how the leading and
the subleading soft graviton theorems in 4D arise purely from the
stress-tensor Ward identities of a generic 3D Carrollian conformal field
theory defined intrinsically on the null-boundary of the 4D AFS, without
appealing to the bulk gravitational physics. I shall then discuss, again
purely from the boundary perspective, how an intrinsic 3D Carrollian
conformal Ward identity can describe the subsubleading soft graviton
theorem. It will turn out that an infinite 'w_{1+∞} tower' of Carrollian
conformal primary fields, corresponding to an infinity of
positive-helicity (projected) soft graviton theorems, must automatically
exist in the theory if the OPEs are to be consistent. Finally, using the
correspondence between the momentum-space massless scattering amplitudes
in the 4D AFS and the 3D position-space Carrollian conformal
correlators, I point out that those w_{1+∞} currents' OPEs with a
primary field collectively encode the universal leading holomorphic
collinear splitting behavior of the 4D Einstein-Yang-Mills amplitudes
involving a positive-helicity graviton.
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