Celestial Regge theory

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bstract

Exploiting the analytic properties of scattering amplitudes, we provide an alternative but equivalent definition of the standard Mellin transform used to obtain celestial correlation functions. From this representation, we identify a celestial dispersion relation that relates the reduced correlation function to the poles and discontinuities of the bulk amplitude, and we present a novel expansion for the celestial correlator from an integral transform of the Froissart-Gribov expansion on the bulk. By drawing an analogy with the standard CFT case, we define the celestial Regge limit and identify the relevant celestial CFT data in terms of the partial amplitudes governing the bulk Regge limit.