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Six-Dimensional Correlators From a Five-Dimensional Operator Product Expansion

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-16 v2

Abstract

In this letter we discuss the operator product expansion of scalar operators in five-dimensional field theories with an SU(1,3)×U(1)SU(1,3)\times U(1) spacetime symmetry. Such theories arise by a novel conformal null reduction of six-dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theories. Unlike Lorentzian conformal field theories, three-point functions of generic operators in such theories are not completely fixed by SU(1,3)×U(1)SU(1,3)\times U(1) symmetry. However, we show that in a special case the functional form of the OPE coefficients can be fully determined, and we use them to fix the form of the three-point function. The result is shown to agree with correlation functions obtained by reduction of six-dimensional conformal field theories.

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@article{arxiv.2401.07932,
  title  = {Six-Dimensional Correlators From a Five-Dimensional Operator Product Expansion},
  author = {N. Lambert and A. Lipstein and R. Mouland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07932},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

17 pages, Typo corrected and some further clarifications. To appear in JHEP

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:17:25.147Z