pith. sign in

2D Kac-Moody Symmetry of 4D Yang-Mills Theory

6 Pith papers cite this work. Polarity classification is still indexing.

6 Pith papers citing it
abstract

Scattering amplitudes of any four-dimensional theory with nonabelian gauge group $\mathcal G$ may be recast as two-dimensional correlation functions on the asymptotic two-sphere at null infinity. The soft gluon theorem is shown, for massless theories at the semiclassical level, to be the Ward identity of a holomorphic two-dimensional $\mathcal G$-Kac-Moody symmetry acting on these correlation functions. Holomorphic Kac-Moody current insertions are positive helicity soft gluon insertions. The Kac-Moody transformations are a $CPT$ invariant subgroup of gauge transformations which act nontrivially at null infinity and comprise the four-dimensional asymptotic symmetry group.

citation-role summary

background 3

citation-polarity summary

fields

hep-th 6

years

2026 3 2025 3

verdicts

UNVERDICTED 6

roles

background 3

polarities

background 3

representative citing papers

Mixed-helicity bracket of celestial symmetries

hep-th · 2026-04-14 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Restricting one helicity to the wedge sector and introducing shadow charges yields closed mixed-helicity algebras for all spins in gravity and gauge theory, plus dual mass BMS extensions and non-vanishing electromagnetic central charges.

Minkowski Space holography and Radon transform

hep-th · 2025-09-05 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Relates free scalar in Minkowski space to codimension-two sphere field via Radon transform to dS/EAdS slice and bulk reconstruction, with Mellin modes as generalized hypergeometric functions via Lee-Pomeransky method.

citing papers explorer

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

  • Soft Algebras in AdS$_4$ from Light Ray Operators in CFT$_3$ hep-th · 2025-12-31 · unverdicted · none · ref 50 · internal anchor

    A conformal map identifies the flat-space soft gluon S-algebra with light-ray operators built from CFT3 currents and their descendants in AdS4.

  • From Asymptotically Flat Gravity to Finite Causal Diamonds hep-th · 2025-12-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    The soft sector phase space of asymptotically flat gravity equals the phase space of radial size fluctuations of a finite causal diamond in flat spacetime.

  • Mixed-helicity bracket of celestial symmetries hep-th · 2026-04-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 75

    Restricting one helicity to the wedge sector and introducing shadow charges yields closed mixed-helicity algebras for all spins in gravity and gauge theory, plus dual mass BMS extensions and non-vanishing electromagnetic central charges.

  • Towards a Carrollian Description of Yang-Mills hep-th · 2026-04-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 36

    A Carrollian theory on null infinity reproduces all MHV and NMHV Yang-Mills tree amplitudes, with a new explicit NMHV expression.

  • Minkowski Space holography and Radon transform hep-th · 2025-09-05 · unverdicted · none · ref 27 · internal anchor

    Relates free scalar in Minkowski space to codimension-two sphere field via Radon transform to dS/EAdS slice and bulk reconstruction, with Mellin modes as generalized hypergeometric functions via Lee-Pomeransky method.

  • Comments on Symmetry Operators, Asymptotic Charges and Soft Theorems hep-th · 2026-04-07 · unverdicted · none · ref 50

    1-form symmetries in the QED soft sector generate asymptotic charges whose central extension implies soft photon theorems and fixes a two-soft-photon contact term.