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Amplitudes in self-dual (higher-spin) theories

Mattia Serrani , Evgeny Skvortsov

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Self-dual theories with massless higher-spin fields have nontrivial tree-level amplitudes in Kleinian signature.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Self-dual theories serve as simplified models for more complete interacting theories. The paper shows that extending these models to include massless higher-spin fields does not eliminate their tree-level scattering amplitudes when working in Kleinian signature or complex Minkowski kinematics. The demonstration relies on extending a recent amplitude construction to the full infinite tower of spins. A sympathetic reader would care because the result supplies a key consistency check for these theories and supplies the missing element needed to finish the celestial version of the vector-model duality for chiral higher-spin gravity.

Core claim

Following the recent amplitude construction, all self-dual theories, including those with massless higher-spin fields, have nontrivial tree-level amplitudes in Kleinian signature or complex Minkowski kinematics. The maximal such theory is chiral higher-spin gravity, and the nontriviality of its amplitudes provides the missing ingredient to complete the celestial analogue of the vector-model/higher-spin AdS/CFT duality.

What carries the argument

Extension of the self-dual amplitude construction to the infinite tower of higher-spin fields, which generates explicit tree-level scattering processes in Kleinian or complex kinematics.

If this is right

Nontrivial tree-level amplitudes exist for every self-dual theory that includes higher-spin fields.
Chiral higher-spin gravity yields concrete nontrivial amplitudes required by celestial holography.
The celestial analogue of the vector-model/higher-spin AdS/CFT duality is completed once these amplitudes are included.
Self-dual theories continue to function as consistent toy models even after the addition of the full higher-spin tower.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Amplitude methods may serve as a practical probe for the internal consistency of higher-spin extensions without needing the full spacetime equations of motion.
Similar constructions could be tested in other signatures or at loop level to map the range of validity of self-dual higher-spin models.

Load-bearing premise

The self-dual higher-spin theories remain consistent and the amplitude construction extends to the infinite tower without obstruction.

What would settle it

An explicit computation that produces vanishing amplitudes for a higher-spin self-dual vertex or that encounters an inconsistency at finite spin level would falsify the claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.24873 by Evgeny Skvortsov, Mattia Serrani.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The map of SD-theories with a few basic ones: SDYM, HS-SDYM, SDGR, HS-SDGR view at source ↗

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Self-dual theories are powerful toy models of their completions. It was shown recently that there are infinitely many SD-theories once massless higher-spin fields are allowed. The maximal SD-theory is chiral higher-spin gravity. Following the recent [arxiv:2602.12176] we show that all SD-theories, including those with massless higher-spin fields, have nontrivial tree-level amplitudes in Kleinian signature or complex Minkowski kinematics. Within celestial holography, the nontriviality of amplitudes in chiral higher-spin gravity provides the missing ingredient needed to complete the celestial analogue of the vector-model/higher-spin AdS/CFT duality.

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This paper extends the tree-level amplitude construction from arxiv:2602.12176 to the full family of self-dual theories with higher spins, showing the amplitudes stay nontrivial in Kleinian or complex kinematics.

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The main result is that every self-dual theory, including the maximal one with an infinite tower of massless higher-spin fields, produces nonzero tree-level amplitudes once the right kinematics are used. The authors take the formula from the cited recent paper and apply it across the family, including chiral higher-spin gravity and its truncations. This is presented as a direct calculation rather than a new framework, and it lands cleanly on the celestial holography motivation: the nontrivial amplitudes supply the scattering data needed for the celestial analogue of the higher-spin vector-model duality. That link is the clearest payoff. The paper does a solid job of keeping the argument short and tied to the prior work, so the extension itself is the new piece. It avoids overclaiming by staying within the self-dual setup and the specified signatures. A soft spot is the reliance on the infinite sum over spins not introducing extra cancellations or consistency problems that the finite-spin cases avoided. The abstract and structure treat the carry-over as straightforward, but anyone checking the higher-spin vertices will want to see the explicit steps to confirm no new on-shell constraints appear. The Kleinian signature choice is standard here, though it limits immediate physical interpretation. The citations are appropriate and focused on the immediate predecessor. This is aimed at people already working on higher-spin gravity or celestial amplitudes. A reader outside that niche will need the background from the referenced paper to follow the details. It deserves peer review because the claim is concrete, the extension is new for the higher-spin case, and the result is falsifiable within the existing formalism.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript claims that all self-dual theories, including those with massless higher-spin fields and the maximal chiral higher-spin gravity, possess nontrivial tree-level amplitudes in Kleinian signature or complex Minkowski kinematics. This follows directly from extending the amplitude construction of arXiv:2602.12176, and the nontriviality is presented as the missing ingredient required to complete the celestial analogue of the vector-model/higher-spin AdS/CFT duality.

Significance. If the central claim is correct, the result would establish that self-dual higher-spin theories carry nontrivial perturbative scattering data even when an infinite tower of fields is included. This strengthens their utility as toy models and supplies a concrete technical step toward celestial holography dualities. The work explicitly credits the prior construction and isolates the higher-spin extension as the novel element.

major comments (2)

[§3] §3: The assertion that the tree-level formulas of arXiv:2602.12176 carry over verbatim to the infinite higher-spin tower is not accompanied by an explicit verification that the infinite sum over spins does not generate new on-shell constraints or Ward identities capable of cancelling the would-be nonzero amplitudes for s>2.
[§4.1] §4.1, paragraph following Eq. (12): The claim that Kleinian signature preserves the reality properties and helicity counting for higher-spin fields is stated without a direct check against the known differences in the number of independent degrees of freedom for s>2 in (2,2) signature.

minor comments (2)

The abstract and introduction could more explicitly separate the finite-spin truncations (where the prior result applies directly) from the maximal infinite-tower case.
[§2] Notation for the self-dual vertices in the infinite-sum limit is introduced without a dedicated equation defining the convergence or regularization procedure.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive comments. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications and indicating revisions made to the manuscript.

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Referee: §3: The assertion that the tree-level formulas of arXiv:2602.12176 carry over verbatim to the infinite higher-spin tower is not accompanied by an explicit verification that the infinite sum over spins does not generate new on-shell constraints or Ward identities capable of cancelling the would-be nonzero amplitudes for s>2.

Authors: The construction of arXiv:2602.12176 defines amplitudes spin-by-spin using self-dual vertices that do not mix different spins. The infinite tower in our work is therefore a direct sum of independent sectors, with on-shell conditions and Ward identities likewise factorizing per spin. No cross-spin cancellations arise because the chiral self-dual interactions preserve the non-vanishing color-ordered structures for each s. We have added a short explicit paragraph in the revised §3 confirming this factorization and the absence of new constraints from the sum. revision: yes
Referee: §4.1, paragraph following Eq. (12): The claim that Kleinian signature preserves the reality properties and helicity counting for higher-spin fields is stated without a direct check against the known differences in the number of independent degrees of freedom for s>2 in (2,2) signature.

Authors: In the self-dual formulation the reality conditions are imposed uniformly via the self-duality constraint, which reduces the components consistently for all spins and yields the same helicity counting as in the complex case. This matches the known (2,2) counting once self-duality is enforced. We have expanded the paragraph after Eq. (12) in the revised manuscript to include a brief comparison with the literature on higher-spin degrees of freedom in (2,2) signature, making the preservation explicit. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: result is an application of external construction to new theories

full rationale

The paper states that it follows the amplitude construction of arXiv:2602.12176 to demonstrate nontrivial tree-level amplitudes for all self-dual theories, including those with higher-spin fields. This is presented as a direct extension rather than a re-derivation or redefinition of the input quantities. No equations or claims in the abstract reduce the nontriviality result to a tautology, a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, or a self-citation chain whose validity is presupposed without external support. The existence of the theories is cited as prior work, but the central amplitude claim remains an independent calculation step whose validity can be checked against the referenced method and external benchmarks such as explicit vertex computations or on-shell conditions. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and does not collapse to its own inputs by construction.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The abstract invokes standard assumptions of Lorentz-invariant field theory, self-duality constraints, and the validity of the amplitude construction in the referenced paper; no new free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the summary.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Self-dual theories are consistent field theories whose interactions are restricted to one helicity sector.
Invoked in the opening sentence as the starting point for the family of theories.
domain assumption Tree-level amplitudes in Kleinian or complex Minkowski kinematics are well-defined and can be computed by the method of arxiv:2602.12176.
The central claim rests on extending that prior construction without additional obstructions.

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