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We compute conformally covariant actions and operators for tensors with mixed symmetries in arbitrary dimension $d$. Our results complete the classification of conformal actions that are quadratic on arbitrary tensors with three indices,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Gregorio Paci , Dario Sauro , Omar Zanusso

The decomposition of 4-point correlation functions into conformal partial waves is a central tool in the study of conformal field theory. We compute these partial waves for scalar operators in Minkowski momentum space, and find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Marc Gillioz

The most general operator product expansion in conformal field theory is obtained using the embedding space formalism and a new uplift for general quasi-primary operators. The uplift introduced here, based on quasi-primary operators with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

Globally conformal invariant quantum field theories in a D-dimensional space-time (D even) have rational correlation functions and admit an infinite number of conserved (symmetric traceless) tensor currents. In a theory of a scalar field of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ivan Todorov

We classify and compute, by means of the six-dimensional embedding formalism in twistor space, all possible three-point functions in four dimensional conformal field theories involving bosonic or fermionic operators in irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

Operator algebra of (not necessarily free) higher-spin conformal conserved currents in generalized matrix spaces, that include 3d Minkowski space-time as a particular case, is shown to be determined by an associative algebra $M$ of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 O. A. Gelfond , M. A. Vasiliev

We present a systematic derivation of the form of correlators of N operators in a Conformal Field Theory in d>2 dimensions and the exchange-symmetry constraints that the functions of the dimensionless cross-ratios obey for N>3.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Nikos Irges , Fotis Koutroulis , Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

We examine the question of scale versus conformal invariance on maximally symmetric curved backgrounds and study general 2-derivative conformally invariant free theories of vectors and tensors. For spacetime dimension $D>4$, these conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Kara Farnsworth , Kurt Hinterbichler , Ondrej Hulik

In the work, the recurrent differential relations that connecting the polarization spin-tensor of the wave function of a free massive particle of an arbitrary spin for $D=4$ and new formula of the $D$-dimensional Behrends-Fronsdal spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Mikhail Podoinitsyn

We find the form of three-point correlation functions of traceless symmetric conserved currents of arbitrary spin in d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). These are fixed up to several constants by conformal symmetry and current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-19 Alexander Zhiboedov

Using polarization spinor methods in conjunction with the superspace formalism, we construct 3-point superconformal invariants that are used to determine the form of 3-point correlators of spinning superfield operators in $\mathcal{N}=1$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Aditya Jain , Amin A. Nizami

We develop techniques useful for obtaining conformal blocks in embedding space. We construct a unique differential operator in embedding space and use it to construct a function that will be an important ingredient in assembling conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-25 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

We present a comprehensive construction of scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on maximally symmetric three-dimensional spaces. Our formalism relies on the introduction of spin-weighted spherical harmonics and a generalized helicity basis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Cyril Pitrou , Thiago S. Pereira

The tensors which may be defined on the conformal manifold for six dimensional CFTs with exactly marginal operators are analysed by considering the response to a Weyl rescaling of the metric in the presence of local couplings. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 Hugh Osborn , Andreas Stergiou

Using the standard Cayley transform and elementary tools it is reiterated that the conformal compactification of the Minkowski space involves not only the "cone at infinity" but also the 2-sphere that is at the base of this cone. We…

General Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Arkadiusz Jadczyk

We construct conformal three-point functions in momentum space with a general tensor and conserved currents of spin $1$ and $2$. While conformal correlators in momentum space have been studied especially in the connection with cosmology,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Hiroshi Isono , Toshifumi Noumi , Toshiaki Takeuchi

We develop a twistor-space framework to compute boundary correlators via a boundary limit of nested Penrose transforms in (A)dS$_4$. Starting from correlators of (anti-)self-dual bulk fields, the boundary limit reproduces the correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-05 Mariana Carrillo González , Théo Keseman

We propose a definition of Mellin amplitudes for conformal correlators involving arbitrary spinning operators in tensor representations of the Lorentz group. These representations cover all bosonic local operators. Our strategy is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-10 Zhongjie Huang , Yichao Tang

We show how to construct embedding space three-point functions for operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations by employing the formalism developed in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434. We study tensor structures that intertwine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Jean-François Fortin , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba