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Supersymmetry can be consistently generalized in one and two dimensional spaces, fractional supersymmetry being one of the possible extension. 2D fractional supersymmetry of arbitrary order $F$ is explicitly constructed using an adapted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Rausch de Traubenberg , P. Simon

Momentum space Ward identities are derived for the amputated n-point Green's functions in 3+1 dimensional non-relativistic conformal field theory. For n=4 and 6 the implications for scattering amplitudes (i.e. on-shell amputated Green's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Mehen , Iain W. Stewart , Mark B. Wise

These notes are based on my lectures given at $\text{ST}^4$ 2025 held at IISER Bhopal. We study the application of spinor and twistor methods to three dimensional conformal field theories in these notes. They are divided into three parts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-01 Dhruva K. S

The implications of conformal invariance, as relevant in quantum field theories at a renormalisation group fixed point, are analysed with particular reference to results for correlation functions involving conserved currents and the energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Erdmenger , H. Osborn

The correlators of free four dimensional conformal field theories (CFT4) have been shown to be given by amplitudes in two-dimensional $so(4,2)$ equivariant topological field theories (TFT2), by using a vertex operator formalism for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

We make use of O(2r+1) spinning particle models to construct linearized higher-spin curvatures in (A)dS spaces for fields of arbitrary half-integer spin propagating in a space of arbitrary (even) dimension: the field potentials, whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Olindo Corradini

Totally symmetric arbitrary spin conformal fields in (A)dS space of even dimension greater than or equal to four are studied. Ordinary-derivative and gauge invariant Lagrangian formulation for such fields is obtained. Gauge symmetries are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-02 R. R. Metsaev

In this paper we shed new light on the AdS/CFT duality by interpreting the CFT as the Fourier space of AdS. We make use of well known integral geometry techniques to derive the Fourier transformation of a function defined on the AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-09 Ian M. Tolfree

There has been recent interest in the question of whether four dimensional scale invariant unitary quantum field theories are actually conformally invariant. In this note we present a complete analysis of possible scale anomalies in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-24 Adam Bzowski , Kostas Skenderis

The problem of constructing gauge-invariant actions for conformal higher-spin fields in curved backgrounds is known to be notoriously difficult. In this paper we present gauge-invariant models for conformal maximal depth fields with spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-29 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Michael Ponds

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

Light-cone gauge formulation of fields in AdS space and conformal field theory in flat space adapted for the study of AdS/CFT correspondence is developed. Arbitrary spin mixed-symmetry fields in AdS space and arbitrary spin mixed-symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-12 R. R. Metsaev

A 2D- fractional supersymmetry theory is algebraically constructed. The Lagrangian is derived using an adapted superspace including, in addition to a scalar field, two fields with spins 1/3,2/3. This theory turns out to be a rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Perez , M. Rausch de Traubenberg , P. Simon

''Massless'' spin-2 field equation in de Sitter space, which is invariant under the conformal transformation, has been obtained. The frame work utilized is the symmetric rank-2 tensor field of the conformal group. Our method is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-18 M. Dehghani , S. Rouhani , M. V. Takook , M. R. Tanhayi

We present a general construction of all correlation functions of a two-dimensional rational conformal field theory, for an arbitrary number of bulk and boundary fields and arbitrary topologies. The correlators are expressed in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Felder , J. Fr"ohlich , J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

In a previous paper conformal gravity was derived by means of a precise action principle on the hypercone in the conformal space. Here it is shown that the same technique used to construct conformal spin two theory as represented by linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-06-02 Robert Marnelius

We explicitly calculate the induced gravity theory at the boundary of an asymptotically Anti-de Sitter five dimensional Einstein gravity. We also display the action that encodes the dynamics of radial diffeomorphisms. It is found that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Rodrigo Aros , Mauricio Romo , Nelson Zamorano

The Schwinger-Dyson equations for Green functions and 3-vertexes in planar approximation used 50 years ago in the earlier theory of conformal bootstrap are written in frames of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The technique of "Wightman-Witten"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-10 Boris L. Altshuler

The goal of these notes is to give a brief explanation of how electric-magnetic duality in four dimensions is related to the existence of an unusual conformal field theory in six dimensions.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-07 Edward Witten