The Geometry of the Space of Celestial CFTs

Daniel Kapec (Harvard U, Cambridge)

Apr 04. 2024, 11:30 — 12:00

“Celestial CFT” is one approach to flat space holography which attempts to recast quantum gravity in (d+2)-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes in terms of a d-dimensional Euclidean CFT residing at the conformal boundary. Using this formalism, I will show that continuous spaces of vacua in the bulk map directly onto the conformal manifold of the boundary CCFT. This correspondence provides a new perspective on the role of the BMS group in flat space holography, and offers a new interpretation of the antisymmetric double-soft gluon theorem in terms of the curvature of an infinite-dimensional vacuum manifold.

Further Information
Venue:
ESI Schrödinger and Boltzmann Lecture Hall
Files:
Slides
Associated Event:
Carrollian Physics and Holography (Thematic Programme)
Organizer(s):
Andrea Campoleoni (U of Mons)
Pedro del Real Lavergne (U of Vienna)
Laura Donnay (SISSA, Trieste)
Adrien Fiorucci (TU Vienna)
Stefan Fredenhagen (U of Vienna)
Daniel Grumiller (TU Vienna)
Stefan Prohazka (U of Vienna)