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Mack has conjectured that all conformal field theories are equivalent to string theories. We explore the example of the two-dimensional minimal model CFTs and confirm that the Mellin transformed amplitudes have the desired properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 David A. Lowe

In AdS/CFT, we introduce a robust method for computing $n$-point gluon Mellin amplitudes, applicable in various spacetime dimensions. Using the Mellin transform and a recursive algorithm, we efficiently calculate tree-level gluon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Jinwei Chu , Savan Kharel

We review recent progress on computing scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills at strong coupling by using the AdS/CFT duality. We do explicit computations by using both, dimensional regularization and a cut-off in the radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis F. Alday

We construct the Mellin representation of four point conformal correlation function with external primary operators with arbitrary integer spacetime spins, and obtain a natural proposal for spinning Mellin amplitudes. By restricting to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Heng-Yu Chen , En-Jui Kuo , Hideki Kyono

Holographic correlators on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space were recently defined in arXiv:2301.01810 as the extrapolation of bulk time-ordered correlation functions to the celestial sphere. In this work we explore the Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Francesca Pacifico , Paolo Pergola , Charlotte Sleight

We discuss the flat space limit of AdS using the momentum space representation of CFT correlators. The flat space limit involves sending the AdS radius and the dimensions of operators dual to massive fields to infinity while also scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Raffaele Marotta , Kostas Skenderis , Mritunjay Verma

We investigate the embedding formalism in conjunction with the Mellin transform to determine tree-level gluon amplitudes in AdS/CFT. Detailed computations of three to five-point correlators are conducted, ultimately distilling what were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Jinwei Chu , Savan Kharel

In this paper, we create a Mellin space method for boundary correlation functions in de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces. We demonstrate that the analytic continuation between AdS${}_{d+1}$ and dS${}_{d+1}$ is encoded in a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Sayantan Choudhury

It is a long-standing conjecture that any CFT with a large central charge and a large gap $\Delta_{\text{gap}}$ in the spectrum of higher-spin single-trace operators must be dual to a local effective field theory in AdS. We prove a sharp…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Dalimil Mazac , Leonardo Rastelli , David Simmons-Duffin

In this paper, we study celestial amplitudes of Goldstone bosons and conformal soft theorems. Motivated by the success of soft bootstrap in momentum space and the important role of the soft limit behavior of tree-level amplitudes, our goal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Jaroslav Trnka , Petr Vasko

We explore the Mellin representation of correlation functions in conformal field theories in the weak coupling regime. We provide a complete proof for a set of Feynman rules to write the Mellin amplitude for a general tree level Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-09 Amin A. Nizami , Arnab Rudra , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

We uncover surprising hidden simplicity in Mellin amplitudes for tree-level AdS holographic correlators for spinning operators, such as AdS "gluons" and "gravitons" (spin 1 and 2). We define Mellin amplitudes with $n$ spinning operators via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-06 Song He , Xiang Li , Yuyu Mo , Dongyu Yang

We propose a new approach towards analytically solving for the dynamical content of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) using the bootstrap philosophy. This combines the original bootstrap idea of Polyakov with the modern technology of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Rajesh Gopakumar , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

We consider holographic CFTs and study their large $N$ expansion. We use Polyakov-Mellin bootstrap to extract the CFT data of all operators, including scalars, till $O(1/N^4)$. We add a contact term in Mellin space, which corresponds to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Kausik Ghosh

We introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence as a natural extension of QFT in a fixed AdS background. We start by reviewing some general concepts of CFT, including the embedding space formalism. We then consider QFT in a fixed AdS background and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Joao Penedones

We develop a formalism to evaluate generic scalar exchange diagrams in AdS_{d+1} relevant for the calculation of four-point functions in AdS/CFT correspondence. The result may be written as an infinite power series of functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Hong Liu

We review the computation of scattering amplitudes of planar maximally super-symmetric Yang-Mills at strong coupling. By using the AdS/CFT duality the problem boils down to the computation of the area of certain minimal surfaces on AdS. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Luis F. Alday

Different frameworks exist to describe the flat-space limit of AdS/CFT, include momentum space, Mellin space, coordinate space, and partial-wave expansion. We explain the origin of momentum space as the smearing kernel in Poincare AdS,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Yue-Zhou Li

We define Mellin amplitudes for the fermion-scalar four point function and the fermion four point function. The Mellin amplitude thus defined has multiple components each associated with a tensor structure. In the case of three spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Josua Faller , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

The scattering equations relate massless scattering kinematics to marked points on a Riemann sphere, and underpin remarkable formulae for the full tree-level S-matrices of many interesting QFTs, including cubic biadjoint scalars, Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Tim Adamo , Iustin Surubaru , Bin Zhu