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Crossing antisymmetric Polyakov blocks + Dispersion relation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-19 v2

Abstract

Many CFT problems, e.g. ones with global symmetries, have correlation functions with a crossing antisymmetric sector. We show that such a crossing antisymmetric function can be expanded in terms of manifestly crossing antisymmetric objects, which we call the '+ type Polyakov blocks'. These blocks are built from AdSd+1_{d+1} Witten diagrams. In 1d they encode the '+ type' analytic functionals which act on crossing antisymmetric functions. In general d we establish this Witten diagram basis from a crossing antisymmetric dispersion relation in Mellin space. Analogous to the crossing symmetric case, the dispersion relation imposes a set of independent 'locality constraints' in addition to the usual CFT sum rules given by the 'Polyakov conditions'. We use the Polyakov blocks to simplify more general analytic functionals in d>1d > 1 and global symmetry functionals.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2109.02658,
  title  = {Crossing antisymmetric Polyakov blocks + Dispersion relation},
  author = {Apratim Kaviraj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02658},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

32 pages,3 figures; v2: typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-24T05:43:52.877Z