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Towards Feynman rules for conformal blocks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-02-03 v1

Abstract

We conjecture a simple set of "Feynman rules" for constructing nn-point global conformal blocks in any channel in dd spacetime dimensions, for external and exchanged scalar operators for arbitrary nn and dd. The vertex factors are given in terms of Lauricella hypergeometric functions of one, two or three variables, and the Feynman rules furnish an explicit power-series expansion in powers of cross-ratios. These rules are conjectured based on previously known results in the literature, which include four-, five- and six-point examples as well as the nn-point comb channel blocks. We prove these rules for all previously known cases, as well as for a seven-point block in a new topology and the even-point blocks in the "OPE channel." The proof relies on holographic methods, notably the Feynman rules for Mellin amplitudes of tree-level AdS diagrams in a scalar effective field theory, and is easily applicable to any particular choice of a conformal block.

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@article{arxiv.2006.14736,
  title  = {Towards Feynman rules for conformal blocks},
  author = {Sarah Hoback and Sarthak Parikh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.14736},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

59 pages + appendices, several figures

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