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Lightcone Bootstrap at higher points

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-04-05 v2

Abstract

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them to bootstrap these correlators in the lightcone limit. As a result we determine the large spin expansion of OPE coefficients involving two or three spinning operators. We verify our results by comparing to the block decomposition of higher-point functions in generalized free theory and in theories with a cubic coupling.

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@article{arxiv.2111.05453,
  title  = {Lightcone Bootstrap at higher points},
  author = {António Antunes and Miguel S. Costa and Vasco Goncalves and Joao Vilas Boas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05453},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

58 pages, 6 figures; v2 Matches published version, typos corrected, additional clarifications, references added

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