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Brijesh Thakkar

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Unitarity, Recursion and Soft Limits in (EA)dS through Dressing

Using the recently developed framework in which cosmological correlators in (E)AdS are represented as flat-space amplitudes dressed by auxiliary propagators, we show that several structural properties of the cosmological observables have a direct flat-space origin. We derive cosmological cutting rules for spinning correlators from the flat-space optical theorem, obtain the cosmological tree theorem from the Feynman tree theorem, and uplift BCFW recursion relations to (E)AdS via dressing. We also show that flat-space soft theorems reproduce the soft limits of (E)AdS correlators, and find indications of an emergent universal structure in subleading soft limits. These results provide evidence that key features of cosmological correlators can be systematically understood as dressed manifestations of flat-space physics.

hep-th

A Supertwistor Formalism for $\mathcal{N}=1,2,3,4\;\text{SCFT}_3$

We develop a manifest supertwistor space formalism for three dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1, 2,3,4$ superconformal field theories. This formalism simultaneously makes manifest the supersymmetry, conformal invariance and conservation. We solve two and three point correlators of (half) integer spin conserved supercurrents using the graded supergroup generators. Apart from the superconformal generators, we find that the superhelicity operators are necessary to fix their functional form in this setup. The superhelicity operators can be recast into first order Euler equations which besides the standard polynomial solutions, also admit weak solutions that are distributional in nature. They play an important role in the case of three point functions, where the super-correlator takes the form of a product of delta functions. Interestingly, we find that these super-correlators are extremely simple, elegant and uniform for all spins and for all $\mathcal{N}\leq4$, which resemble the non supersymmetric correlators where the twistors are replaced with appropriately defined supertwistors.

hep-th