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Large spin systematics in CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-01-27 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Using conformal field theory (CFT) arguments we derive an infinite number of constraints on the large spin expansion of the anomalous dimensions and structure constants of higher spin operators. These arguments rely only on analiticity, unitarity, crossing-symmetry and the structure of the conformal partial wave expansion. We obtain results for both, perturbative CFT to all order in the perturbation parameter, as well as non-perturbatively. For the case of conformal gauge theories this provides a proof of the reciprocity principle to all orders in perturbation theory and provides a new "reciprocity" principle for structure constants. We argue that these results extend also to non-conformal theories.

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@article{arxiv.1502.07707,
  title  = {Large spin systematics in CFT},
  author = {Luis F. Alday and Agnese Bissi and Tomasz Lukowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07707},
  year   = {2016}
}

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20 pages; v2: version published in JHEP

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