Towards Feynman rules for conformal blocks
Abstract
We conjecture a simple set of "Feynman rules" for constructing -point global conformal blocks in any channel in spacetime dimensions, for external and exchanged scalar operators for arbitrary and . 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 -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.
Cite
@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