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We establish conceptually important properties of the operator product expansion (OPE) in the context of perturbative, Euclidean $\varphi^{4}$-quantum field theory. First, we demonstrate, generalizing earlier results and techniques of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Jan Holland , Stefan Hollands

We derive a bound on the conformal dimensions of the lightest few states in general unitary 2d conformal field theories with discrete spectra using modular invariance, including CFTs with chiral currents. We derive a bound on the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-04 Joshua D. Qualls

Bounds on anomalous dimensions of scalar operators in 4d superconformal field theory are explored through perturbative viewpoint. Following the recent work of Green and Shih, in which a conjecture involved this issue is verified at the NLO,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 Sibo Zheng

We consider a recursive scheme for defining the coefficients in the operator product expansion (OPE) of an arbitrary number of composite operators in the context of perturbative, Euclidean quantum field theory in four dimensions. Our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 Jan Holland , Stefan Hollands

The N = 2, 4 superconformal symmetry constraints in d = 4 for four point functions of chiral primary 1/2-BPS operators are derived. The operators are described by symmetric traceless tensors of the internal R-symmetry group. A substantial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 Michael Nirschl

We study perturbative and instanton corrections to the Operator Product Expansion of the lowest weight Chiral Primary Operators of N=4 SYM_4. We confirm the recently observed non-renormalization of various operators (notably of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Arutyunov , S. Frolov , A. C. Petkou

In an arbitrary unitary 4D CFT we consider a scalar operator \phi, and the operator \phi^2 defined as the lowest dimension scalar which appears in the OPE \phi\times\phi with a nonzero coefficient. Using general considerations of OPE,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Riccardo Rattazzi , Vyacheslav S. Rychkov , Erik Tonni , Alessandro Vichi

In this thesis an iterative scheme for the construction of operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients is applied to determine low order coefficients in perturbation theory for a specific toy model. We use the approach to quantum field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 Jan Holland

We compute tree-level celestial operator product expansions (OPE) in a bosonic sub-sector of the Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity from the scattering amplitudes in the MHV configuration. While the OPE between a leading soft graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Nirmal Ghorai , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We construct the operator product expansions (OPE) of the chiral primary operators in the worldsheet theory for strings on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4. As an interesting application, we will use the worldsheet OPEs to derive a recursion relation for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Ingo Kirsch , Tim Wirtz

We introduce a symmetric operad whose algebras are the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) Algebras of quantum fields. There is a natural classical limit for the algebras over this operad and they are commutative associative algebras with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-13 Nikolay M. Nikolov

String theory is currently the most promising theory to explain the spectrum of the elementary particles and their interactions. One of its most important features is its large symmetry group, which contains the conformal transformations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kris Thielemans

We examine two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) at central charge c=0. These arise typically in the description of critical systems with quenched disorder, but also in other contexts including dilute self-avoiding polymers and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We discuss the general covariance of operator product expansion in D-dimensional Euclidean conformal field theories. We propose to organise the expansion in powers of geodesic distance between two insertion points and to use the tangent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Anatoly Konechny

We generalize Regge theory to correlation functions in conformal field theories. This is done by exploring the analogy between Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT and S-matrix elements. In the process, we develop the conformal partial wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-24 Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Penedones

In the SL(2) conformal field theory, we write down and analyze the analytic expression of the three-point functions of generic primary fields with definite SL(2) weights. Using these results, we discuss the operator product expansion in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yuji Satoh

We derive a nonperturbative, convergent operator product expansion (OPE) for null-integrated operators on the same null plane in a CFT. The objects appearing in the expansion are light-ray operators, whose matrix elements can be computed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-01 Murat Kologlu , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov

We prove using invariance under the modular $S$- and $ST$-transformations that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) of only even-spin operators (with no extended chiral algebra and with central charges $c,\tilde{c}>1$)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 Joshua D. Qualls

We investigate the short-interval expansion of the subsystem fidelity in two-dimensional conformal field theories (2D CFTs) using the operator product expansion (OPE) of twist operators. We obtain universal contributions from general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Bin Sui , Yihao Wang , Jiaju Zhang