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A Scattering Amplitude in Conformal Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-12-30 v1

Abstract

We define form factors and scattering amplitudes in Conformal Field Theory as the coefficient of the singularity of the Fourier transform of time-ordered correlation functions, as p20p^2 \to 0. In particular, we study a form factor F(s,t,u)F(s,t,u) obtained from a four-point function of identical scalar primary operators. We show that FF is crossing symmetric, analytic and it has a partial wave expansion. We illustrate our findings in the 3d Ising model, perturbative fixed points and holographic CFTs.

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@article{arxiv.2003.07361,
  title  = {A Scattering Amplitude in Conformal Field Theory},
  author = {Marc Gillioz and Marco Meineri and Joao Penedones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.07361},
  year   = {2020}
}

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70 pages, 15 figures

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