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Multipoint Bootstrap I: Light-Cone Snowflake OPE and the WL Origin

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-31 v4

Abstract

We initiate an exploration of the conformal bootstrap for n>4n>4 point correlation functions. Here we bootstrap correlation functions of the lightest scalar gauge invariant operators in planar non-abelian conformal gauge theories as their locations approach the cusps of a null polygon. For that we consider consistency of the OPE in the so-called snowflake channel with respect to cyclicity transformations which leave the null configuration invariant. For general non-abelian gauge theories this allows us to strongly constrain the OPE structure constants of up to three large spin JjJ_j operators (and large polarization quantum number ljl_{j}) to all loop orders. In N=4 \mathcal{N}=4 we fix them completely through the duality to null polygonal Wilson loops and the recent origin limit of the hexagon explored by Basso, Dixon and Papathanasiou.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10407,
  title  = {Multipoint Bootstrap I: Light-Cone Snowflake OPE and the WL Origin},
  author = {Carlos Bercini and Vasco Gonçalves and Pedro Vieira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10407},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures, 1 table and 2 mathematica notebooks. Typos corrected

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