Celestial amplitudes: conformal partial waves and soft limits

Abstract

Massless scattering amplitudes in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime can be Mellin-transformed to correlation functions on the celestial sphere at null infinity called celestial amplitudes. We study various properties of massless four-point scalar and gluon celestial amplitudes such as conformal partial wave decomposition, crossing relations and optical theorem. As a byproduct, we derive the analog of the single and double soft limits for all gluon celestial amplitudes.