GRAVITATIONAL WAVES;
GENERAL RELATIVITY;
SYMMETRIES;
AMPLITUDES;
D O I:
10.1103/PhysRevD.109.086017
中图分类号:
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号:
0704 ;
摘要:
In this paper we compute the celestial operator product expansion between two outgoing positive helicity gravitons in the self -dual gravity. It has been shown that the self -dual gravity is aw1+co-invariant theory whose scattering amplitudes are one -loop exact with all positive helicity gravitons. Celestial w1+co symmetry is generated by an infinite tower of (conformally soft) gravitons which are holomorphic conserved currents. We find that at any given order only the descendants of a finite number of w1+co currents contribute to the operator product expansion. This is somewhat surprising but, this is consistent with our earlier analysis based on w1+co symmetry alone. The phenomenon of truncation also suggests that in some (unknown) formulation the spectrum of conformal dimensions in the dual two dimensional theory can be bounded from below.