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The Conformal Grassmannian: A Symplectic Bi-Grassmannian for $CFT_ 4$ Correlators

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-11 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We introduce a formalism for conformal field theory in four dimensions: a symplectic bi-Grassmannian representation of CFT4_4 Wightman correlators. Working in Klein space with off-shell spinor-helicity variables, we show that correlators of Δ=2\Delta = 2 scalars and symmetric-traceless conserved currents are encoded by integrals over a pair of nn-planes in a 2n2n-dimensional symplectic vector space. These planes are constrained to be mutually symplectically orthogonal and aligned with the external kinematics. Conformal invariance, momentum conservation, and little-group covariance all follow geometrically from this structure. We derive all two- and three-point functions involving scalars, fermions, conserved currents, and stress tensors. As a non-trivial test, we show that the construction reproduces the full set of independent conformally invariant structures of JJJ\langle JJJ\rangle and TTT\langle TTT\rangle in CFT4_4. The resulting expressions are considerably more compact than their momentum-space counterparts. They also make manifest the double copy between Yang--Mills JJJ\langle JJJ \rangle and Einstein-gravity TTT\langle TTT \rangle. We further present a helicity-basis reformulation that makes the GL(1,R) and SL(2,R) weights of individual helicity components explicit. This basis also provides a natural starting point for a twistor-space formulation of the correlators.

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@article{arxiv.2605.06811,
  title  = {The Conformal Grassmannian: A Symplectic Bi-Grassmannian for $CFT_ 4$ Correlators},
  author = {Aswini Bala and Sachin Jain and Dhruva K. S},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.06811},
  year   = {2026}
}

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30 pages main text and 4 pages Appendix