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 -point conformal block in the projection channel using oscillator representations on . This is done by evaluating a class of integrals over the homogeneous space 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 -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}
}