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Thermal $n$-Point Conformal Blocks in Four Dimensions from Oscillator Representations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-08-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We define and compute the four-dimensional thermal nn-point conformal block in the projection channel using oscillator representations on Sβ1×S3\mathbb{S}^1_\beta \times \mathbb{S}^3. This is done by evaluating a class of integrals over the homogeneous space D4\mathbb{D}_4 of the four-dimensional conformal group. We restrict ourselves to scalar external operators and scalar exchange. In the low-temperature limit, our result reduces correctly to the vacuum (n+2)(n+2)-point block in the comb channel. The corresponding expressions can be written as a series of terminating hypergeometric functions or equivalently, a series of weighted SU(2) spin-networks. Alternatively, functions adapted to the SU(2,2) representation are introduced and some properties are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2507.22974,
  title  = {Thermal $n$-Point Conformal Blocks in Four Dimensions from Oscillator Representations},
  author = {Martin Ammon and Jakob Hollweck and Tobias Hössel and Katharina Wölfl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22974},
  year   = {2025}
}