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We study the kinematics of correlation functions of local and extended operators in a conformal field theory. We present a new method for constructing the tensor structures associated to primary operators in an arbitrary bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Edoardo Lauria , Marco Meineri , Emilio Trevisani

We present further mathematical results on a function appearing in the conformal blocks of four-point correlation functions with arbitrary quasi-primary operators. The $H$-function was introduced in a previous article and it has several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-01 Vincent Comeau , Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

We consider conformal field theories around points of large twist degeneracy. Examples of this are theories with weakly broken higher spin symmetry and perturbations around generalised free fields. At the degenerate point we introduce twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Luis F. Alday

Based on our earlier work on free field realizations of conformal blocks for conformal field theories with $SL(2)$ current algebra and with fractional level and spins, we discuss in some detail the fusion rules which arise. By a careful…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 J. L. Petersen , J. Rasmussen , M. Yu

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

The 2(2s+1)-component relativistic basis spinors for the arbitrary spin particles are established in position, momentum and four-dimensional spaces, where s=0,1 / 2,1, 3 / 2, 2, ... . These spinors for integral- and half-integral spins are…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 I. I. Guseinov

A general two-dimensional fractional supersymmetric conformal field theory is investigated. The structure of the symmetries of the theory is studied. Applying the generators of the closed subalgebra generated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-07 Fardin Kheirandish , Mohammad Khorrami

We observe that conformal blocks of scalar 4-point functions in a $d$-dimensional conformal field theory can mapped to eigenfunctions of a 2-particle hyperbolic Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian. The latter describes two coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-17 Mikhail Isachenkov , Volker Schomerus

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 present a classification of conformally-invariant three-point tensor structures in $d$ dimensions that parallels the classification of three-particle scattering amplitudes in $d+1$ dimensions. Using a set of canonically-normalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-01 Hayden Lee , Xinkang Wang

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 the details of a recently discovered representation of conformal four-point ladder integrals as thermal one-point functions in scalar field theories. We show that the conformal ladder integrals can be constructed from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Manthos Karydas , Songyuan Li , Anastasios C. Petkou , Matthieu Vilatte

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 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

The generic structure of 4-point functions of fields residing in indecomposable representations of arbitrary rank is given. The used algorithm is described and we present all results for Jordan-rank $r=2$ and $r=3$ where we make use of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Michael Flohr , Marco Krohn

Four-point correlation functions of hypermultiplet bilinear composites are analysed in N=2 superconformal field theory using the superconformal Ward identities and the analyticity properties of the composite operator superfields. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 B. U. Eden , P. S. Howe , A. Pickering , E. Sokatchev , P. C. West

In this paper, we study the conformally invariant field equations for vector-spinor field in de Sitter space-time. The solutions are also obtained in terms of the de Sitter-Dirac plane waves. The related two-point functions are calculated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-13 Negin Fatahi , Mohamad Vahid Takook , Mohamad Reza Tanhayi

We apply an integral transformation to solutions of a partial differential equation for five-point correlation functions in Liouville theory on a sphere with one degenerate field $V_{-\frac{1}{2b}}$. By repeating this transformation, we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 André Neveu

We obtain analytic expressions of four-dimensional Euclidean $N$-point conformal integrals for arbitrary $N$ by solving a Lauricella-like system of differential equations derived earlier. We demonstrate their relation to the GKZ…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-29 Aritra Pal , Koushik Ray