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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

Logarithmic conformal field theories have a vast range of applications, from critical percolation to systems with quenched disorder. In this paper we thoroughly examine the structure of these theories based on their symmetry properties. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Matthijs Hogervorst , Miguel Paulos , Alessandro Vichi

Totally symmetric arbitrary spin conformal fields propagating in the flat space of even dimension greater than or equal to four are studied. For such fields, we develop a general ordinary-derivative light-cone gauge formalism and obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-29 R. R. Metsaev

The aim of this paper is to study three dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theories in twistor space. We formulate the conformal Ward identities and solve for two and three point Lorentzian Wightman functions. We found that the Helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Deep Mazumdar , Vibhor Singh

We use the equations of motion in combination with crossing symmetry to constrain the properties of interacting fermionic boundary conformal field theories. This combination is an efficient way of determining operator product expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-16 Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

Correlation functions in Euclidean conformal field theories in four dimensions are expressed as representations of the conformal group $SL(2,\H)$, $\H$ being the field of quaternions, on the configuration space of points. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Aritra Pal , Koushik Ray

In this paper we consider an axial torsion to build metric-compatible connections in conformal gravity, with gauge potentials; the geometric background is filled with Dirac spinors: scalar fields with suitable potentials are added…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-12 Luca Fabbri

Conformal block is a function of many variables, usually represented as a formal series, with coefficients which are certain matrix elements in the chiral (e.g. Virasoro) algebra. Non-perturbative conformal block is a multi-valued function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 H. Itoyama , A. Mironov , A. Morozov

The symmetry algebra of massless fields living on the 3-dimensional conformal boundary of AdS(4) is shown to be isomorphic to 3d conformal higher spin algebra (AdS(4) higher spin algebra). A simple realization of this algebra on the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Shaynkman

This paper develops a method to compute any bosonic conformal block as a series expansion in the optimal radial coordinate introduced by Hogervorst and Rychkov. The method reduces to the known result when the external operators are all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Miguel S. Costa , Tobias Hansen , João Penedones , Emilio Trevisani

We uncover a striking connection between conformal blocks and fractional calculus. By employing a modified form of half-derivates, we derived explicitly the exact form of the three-dimensional conformal block, expressed as the product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 Chaoming Song

Relying on a mathematical analogy of the pure states of the two-qubit system of quantum information theory with four-component spinors we introduce the concept of the intrinsic entanglement of spinors. To explore its physical sense we study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-04 K. Scharnhorst

We calculate the scaling dimensions of operators with large global charge and spin in 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories. By the state-operator correspondence, these operators correspond to superfluids with vortices and can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-19 Gabriel Cuomo , Anton de la Fuente , Alexander Monin , David Pirtskhalava , Riccardo Rattazzi

Under the spin-position decoupling approximation, a vector with a phase in 3D orientation space endowed with geometric algebra, substitutes the vector-matrix spin model built on the Pauli spin operator. The standard quantum operator-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Sokol Andoni

We study a statistical model defined by a conformally invariant distribution of overlapping spheres in arbitrary dimension d. The model arises as the asymptotic distribution of cosmic bubbles in d+1 dimensional de Sitter space, and also as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Ben Freivogel , Matthew Kleban

In $D$ dimensional de Sitter space, a scalar field has an infinite tower of special tachyonic mass values at which enhanced shift symmetries appear. After modding out by these shift symmetries, these fields correspond to the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Kara Farnsworth , Kurt Hinterbichler , Samanta Saha

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

We apply the analytic conformal bootstrap method to study weakly coupled conformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We employ twist conformal blocks to find the most general form of the one-loop four-point correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Johan Henriksson , Tomasz Lukowski

The Verlinde formula computes the dimension of conformal blocks associated to simple Lie algebras and stable pointed curves. If a simply-laced simple Lie algebra admits a nontrivial diagram automorphism, then this automorphism acts on the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Jiuzu Hong

In the framework of metric-like approach, totally symmetric arbitrary spin bosonic conformal fields propagating in flat space-time are studied. Depending on the values of conformal dimension, spin, and dimension of space-time, we classify…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 R. R. Metsaev