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Asymptotic symmetry plays an important role in determining physical observables of a theory. Recently, in the context of four dimensional asymptotically flat pure gravity and \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 supergravity, it has been proposed that OPEs of appropriate celestial amplitudes can be used to find their asymptotic symmetries. In this paper we find the asymptotic symmetry algebras of four dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills and Einstein-Maxwell theories using this alternative approach, namely using the OPEs of their respective celestial amplitudes. The algebra obtained here are in agreement with the known results in the literature.
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Banerjee, N., Rahnuma, T. & Singh, R.K. Asymptotic symmetry of four dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills and Einstein-Maxwell theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 33 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2022)033
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