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In general, in gauge field theories, physical observables are represented by gauge-invariant composite operators, such as the electromagnetic current. As we recently demonstrated in the context of the $U\left(1\right)$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Giovani Peruzzo

We obtain the planar correlation function of four half-BPS operators of arbitrary weights, up to three loops. Our method exploits only elementary properties of the integrand of the planar correlator, such as its symmetries and singularity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Dmitry Chicherin , James Drummond , Paul Heslop , Emery Sokatchev

We discuss the partners of the stress energy tensor and their structure in Logarithmic conformal field theories. In particular we draw attention to the fundamental differences between theories with zero and non-zero central charge. However…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 I. I. Kogan , A. Nichols

The paper examines correspondence among correlation functions of symmetric orbifold and string theory on AdS3 described by sl(2) Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) model. We start by writing down n-point function of twist operators in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Yasuaki Hikida , Tianshu Liu

We investigate the behavior under Lorentz tranformations of perturbative coefficient functions in a collinear twist-3 formalism relevant for high-energy observables including transverse polarization of hadrons. We argue that those…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Koichi Kanazawa , Yuji Koike , Andreas Metz , Daniel Pitonyak , Marc Schlegel

We compute the correlation function between a circular half-BPS Wilson loop (or straight Wilson line) and a local operator in ABJM theory utilizing its M-theory description. The local operator can be a $1/3$-BPS single-trace chiral primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiao-Yi Zhang , Yunfeng Jiang , Jun-Bao Wu

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

We propose an SL(2,R) Chern-Simons description of Liouville field theory (LFT), whose correlation function duals to partition function of N=2 SU(2) gauge theories. We give the dual expressions for conformal blocks, fusion rules, and Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-02 Jian-Feng Wu , Yang Zhou

Soft-operators, loosely speaking, are operators which create or annihilate zero energy massless particles on the celestial sphere in Minkowski space. The Lorentz group acts on the celestial sphere by conformal transformation and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Shamik Banerjee , Pranjal Pandey , Partha Paul

In this paper, we investigate the correlation functions of the conformal field theory (CFT) with the $T\bar{T}$ deformation on torus in terms of perturbative CFT approach, which is the extension of the previous investigations on correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Song He , Yuan Sun

Conformal symmetry of QCD is restored at the Wilson-Fisher critical point in noninteger $4-2\epsilon$ space-time dimensions. Correlation functions of multiplicatively renormalizable operators with different anomalous dimensions at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 V. M. Braun , K. G. Chetyrkin , A. N. Manashov

Conformally soft operators and their associated soft theorems on the celestial sphere encode the low energy behaviour of bulk scattering amplitudes. They lead to an infinite dimensional symmetry algebra of the celestial CFT at tree-level.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-18 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

We calculate two different types of 3-point correlators involving twist-2 operators in the leading weak coupling approximation and all orders in N_c in N=4 SYM theory. Each of three operators in the first correlator can be any component of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Vladimir Kazakov , Evgeny Sobko

We study novel conformal twist defects in 4d Maxwell theory, around which electric and magnetic fields are exchanged. These are codimension-2 defects living at the end of topological defects for certain non-invertible global symmetries. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Shu-Heng Shao , Siwei Zhong

Using an extension of the concept of twist field in QFT to space-time (external) symmetries, we study conical twist fields in two-dimensional integrable QFT. These create conical singularities of arbitrary excess angle. We show that, upon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-19 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon , Davide Fioravanti

We investigate the effects of the twist-2 operator in 2D symmetric orbifold CFTs. The twist operator can join together a twist-$M$ state and a twist-$N$ state, creating a twist-$(M+N)$ state. This process involves three effects: pair…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-27 Bin Guo , Shaun D. Hampton

We construct symmetry generators and operators for $J\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories by generalizing the framework established for $T\bar{T}$ deformations. Working in the Hamiltonian formalism on the plane, we derive the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Liangyu Chen , Zhengyuan Du , Wei Song

The possibility of extending the Liouville Conformal Field Theory from values of the central charge $c \geq 25$ to $c \leq 1$ has been debated for many years in condensed matter physics as well as in string theory. It was only recently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 Yacine Ikhlef , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

We implement a version of conformal field theory (CFT) that gives a connection to SLE in a multiply connected domain. Our approach is based on the Gaussian free field and applies to CFTs with central charge $c \leq 1$. In this framework we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Tom Alberts , Sung-Soo Byun , Nam-Gyu Kang

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg