PIRSA:26060047

Mixed-helicity sector of celestial symmetries and the shadow transform

APA

Salluce, D.G. (2026). Mixed-helicity sector of celestial symmetries and the shadow transform. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/26060047

MLA

Salluce, Domenico Giuseppe. Mixed-helicity sector of celestial symmetries and the shadow transform. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Jun. 04, 2026, https://pirsa.org/26060047

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:26060047,
            doi = {10.48660/26060047},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/26060047},
            author = {Salluce, Domenico Giuseppe},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Mixed-helicity sector of celestial symmetries and the shadow transform},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2026},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:26060047 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/26060047}}
          }
          

Domenico Giuseppe Salluce University of Udine

Talk numberPIRSA:26060047
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Abstract

The asymptotic symmetries of null infinity in asymptotically flat spacetimes can be enhanced to a w1+∞ algebra, when restricting to a single graviton helicity sector. These symmetries were first extracted from the operator product expansion (OPE) of conformal gravitons in celestial holography. They later found a canonical realization in the bracket of an infinite set of higher-spin charges. Combining both helicity sectors in the full theory of gravity presents difficulties from both the canonical and the celestial perspective. In this talk, I will present a covariant phase space analysis of higher-spin gravitational charges and analyze their mixed-helicity bracket. I will show that, when one helicity is restricted to the wedge sector, the bracket reduces to a closed structure, where the shadow transform plays a key role. This framework also yields a dual-mass extension of the BMS algebra in the lower-spin sector. On the celestial side, I will use an existing bracket-OPE correspondence to provide a prescription for resolving the soft-limit ordering ambiguity in doubly-soft mixed-helicity OPEs, and furthermore to compute OPEs of shadow-transformed conformally soft gravitons directly from the canonical side. [Based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12854 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26520]