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Families of conformal field theories are naturally endowed with a Riemannian geometry which is locally encoded by correlation functions of exactly marginal operators. We show that the curvature of such conformal manifolds can be computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Bruno Balthazar , Clay Cordova

Conformal blocks are a central analytic tool for higher dimensional conformal field theory. We employ Harish-Chandra's radial component map to construct universal Casimir differential equations for spinning conformal blocks in any dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus

We study the general structure of correlation functions in an Sp(2n)-invariant formulation of systems of an infinite number of higher-spin fields. For n=4,8 and 16 these systems comprise the conformal higher-spin fields in space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 E. D. Skvortsov , Dmitri Sorokin , Mirian Tsulaia

We develop the embedding formalism to describe symmetric traceless tensors in Anti-de Sitter space. We use this formalism to construct the bulk-to-bulk propagator of massive spin J fields and check that it has the expected short distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Penedones

In this note we present a simple method of constructing general conformally invariant three point functions of operators of various spins in three dimensions. Upon further imposing current conservation conditions, we find new parity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-05 Simone Giombi , Shiroman Prakash , Xi Yin

This work deals with the conformal transformations in six-dimensional spinorial formalism. Several conformally invariant equations are obtained and their geometrical interpretation are worked out. Finally, the integrability conditions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-14 Carlos Batista

We derive a compact analytic formula for a complete basis of conformally invariant tensor structures for three-point functions of conserved operators in arbitrary 4D Lorentz representations. The construction follows directly from a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Paul Heslop , Hector Puerta Ramisa

We consider entanglement through permeable interfaces in the c=1 (1+1)-dimensional conformal field theory. We compute the partition functions with the interfaces inserted. By the replica trick, the entanglement entropy is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Kazuhiro Sakai , Yuji Satoh

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

We introduce a formalism for conformal field theory in four dimensions: a symplectic bi-Grassmannian representation of CFT$_4$ Wightman correlators. Working in Klein space with off-shell spinor-helicity variables, we show that correlators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-11 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S

We study conformal twist field four-point functions on a $\mathbb Z_N$ orbifold. We examine in detail the case $N=3$ and analyze theories obtained by replicated $N$-times a minimal model with central charge $c<1$. A fastly convergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Filiberto Ares , Raoul Santachiara , Jacopo Viti

This paper proposes a novel approach to word embeddings in Transformer models by utilizing spinors from geometric algebra. Spinors offer a rich mathematical framework capable of capturing complex relationships and transformations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rick White

A recent complete, explicit classification of all locally constructed symmetries and currents for free spinorial massless spin s fields on Minkowski space is summarized and extended to give a classification of all covariant symmetry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen C. Anco , Juha Pohjanpelto

The essentially unique torsionful version of the classical two-component spinor formalisms of Infeld and van der Waerden is presented. All the metric spinors and connecting objects that arise here are formally the same as the ones borne by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 J. G. Cardoso

We systematically study correlators of a generic conformal field theory with a global O(2) symmetry in a sector of large global charge. We focus in particular on three- and four-point correlators with conserved current insertions sandwiched…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Nicola Dondi , Ioannis Kalogerakis , Rafael Moser , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

Conformally compactified (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime may be identified with the projective light cone in (4+2)-dimensional spacetime. In the latter spacetime the special conformal group acts via rotations and boosts, and conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-05 Steven Duplij , Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir Shtelen

Starting with conformally covariant correlation functions, a sequence of functional representations of the conformal algebra is constructed. A key step is the introduction of representations which involve an auxiliary functional. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-24 Oliver J. Rosten

We derive closed-form expressions for all ingredients of the Zamolodchikov-like recursion relation for general spinning conformal blocks in 3-dimensional conformal field theory. This result opens a path to efficient automatic generation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Luca V. Iliesiu , Petr Kravchuk

We have shown that a particular class of non-local free field theory has conformal symmetry in arbitrary dimensions. Using the local field theory counterpart of this class, we have found the Noether currents and Ward identities of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 M. A. Rajabpour

This paper is designed to be a practical tool for constructing and investigating two-point correlation functions in defect conformal field theory, directly in physical space, between any two bulk primaries or between a bulk primary and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Christopher P. Herzog , Abhay Shrestha