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Multiple scalar fields appear in vast modern particle physics and gravity models. When they couple to gravity non-minimally, conformal transformation is utilized to bring the theory into Einstein frame. However, the kinetic terms of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

We describe a prescription for constructing conformal blocks in conformal field theories in any space-time dimension with arbitrary quantum numbers. Our procedure reduces the calculation of conformal blocks to constructing certain group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

In the context of conformal field theories in general space-time dimension, we find all the possible singularities of the conformal blocks as functions of the scaling dimension $\Delta$ of the exchanged operator. In particular, we argue,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-03 João Penedones , Emilio Trevisani , Masahito Yamazaki

We present a comprehensive method for the evaluation of a vast class of integrals representing 3-point functions of conformal field theories in momentum space. The method leads to analytic, closed-form expressions for all scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-18 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

In this work we launch a systematic theory of superconformal blocks for four-point functions of arbitrary supermultiplets. Our results apply to a large class of superconformal field theories including 4-dimensional models with any number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

Virasoro conformal blocks are fixed in principle by symmetry, but a closed-form expression is unknown in the general case. In this work, we provide three closed-form expansions for the four-point Virasoro blocks on the sphere, for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Eric Perlmutter

We construct field theories in $2+1$ dimensions with multiple conformal symmetries acting on only one of the spatial directions. These can be considered a conformal extension to "subsystem scale invariances", borrowing the language often…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Andreas Karch , Amir Raz

This note supplements an earlier paper on conformal field theories. There it was shown how to construct tensor, spinor, and spinor-tensor primary fields in four dimensions from their counterparts in six dimensions, where conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Steven Weinberg

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

In celestial conformal field theory, gluons are represented by primary fields with dimensions $\Delta=1+i\lambda$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$ and spin $J=\pm 1$, in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. All two- and three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We define and compute the four-dimensional thermal $n$-point conformal block in the projection channel using oscillator representations on $\mathbb{S}^1_\beta \times \mathbb{S}^3$. This is done by evaluating a class of integrals over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

In this paper, we analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on conformal theories in large dimensions. In particular, we show that in a unitary conformal theory in large dimension $D$, the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

This is a set of lecture notes on the operator algebraic approach to 2-dimensional conformal field theory. Representation theoretic aspects and connections to vertex operator algebras are emphasized. No knowledge on operator algebras or…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi

We develop techniques for computing superconformal blocks in 4d superconformal field theories. First we study the super-Casimir differential equation, deriving simple new expressions for superconformal blocks for 4-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Zuhair U. Khandker , Daliang Li , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity in general 3D Conformal Field Theories. In doing so we derive new results for conformal blocks appearing in four-point functions of scalars and present an efficient method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

In conformal field theory, momentum eigenstates can be parameterized by a pair of real spinors, in terms of which special conformal transformations take a simpler form. This well-known fact allows to express 2-point functions of primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-30 Marc Gillioz

Two-dimensional sl(n) quantum Toda field theory on a sphere is considered. This theory provides an important example of conformal field theory with higher spin symmetry. We derive the three-point correlation functions of the exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 V. A. Fateev , A. V. Litvinov

Theories containing infinite number of higher spin fields require a particular definition of summation over spins consistent with their underlying symmetries. We consider a model of massless scalars interacting (via bilinear conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-22 E. Joung , S. Nakach , A. A. Tseytlin

The structure and the dynamics of massless higher spin fields in various dimensions are reviewed with an emphasis on conformally invariant higher spin fields. We show that in D=3,4,6 and 10 dimensional space-time the conformal higher spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Bandos , X. Bekaert , J. A. de Azcarraga , D. Sorokin , M. Tsulaia

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