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Classical conformal blocks naturally appear in the large central charge limit of 2D Virasoro conformal blocks. In the $AdS_{3}/CFT_{2}$ correspondence, they are related to classical bulk actions and are used to calculate entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-10 Máté Lencsés , Fábio Novaes

We construct confluent conformal blocks of the second kind of the Virasoro algebra. We also construct the Stokes transformations which map such blocks in one Stokes sector to another. In the BPZ limit, we verify explicitly that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Jonatan Lenells , Julien Roussillon

Given a 4d N=2 SUSY gauge theory, one can construct the Seiberg-Witten prepotentional, which involves a sum over instantons. Integrals over instanton moduli spaces require regularisation. For UV-finite theories the AGT conjecture favours…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 Vasiliy Alba , Andrey Morozov

We derive expressions for the Virasoro OPE and four-point conformal blocks on the sphere via the resolution of identity recently determined in [Phys. Rev. D 111, 085010 (2025), arXiv:2409.12224]. Even though the resolution of the identity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Jean-François Fortin , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Witold Skiba

We study the semiclassical holographic correspondence between 2d CFT n-point conformal blocks and massive particle configurations in the asymptotically AdS3 space. On the boundary we use the heavy-light approximation in which case two of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 K. B. Alkalaev

We consider $\alpha$-heavy conformal operators in CFT$_2$ which dimensions grow as $h = O(c^\alpha)$ with $\alpha$ being non-negative rational number and conjecture that the large-$c$ asymptotics of the respective 4-point Virasoro conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 K. B. Alkalaev , P. E. Litvinov

We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS$_3$ in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Mert Besken , Ashwin Hegde , Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus

We extend recent results on semi-classical conformal blocks in 2d CFT and their relation to 3D gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider four-point functions with two heavy and two light external operators, along with the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , River Snively

In the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence, physical interest attaches to understanding Virasoro conformal blocks at large central charge and in a kinematical regime of large Lorentzian time separation, $t\sim c$. However, almost no analytical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Per Kraus , Allic Sivaramakrishnan , River Snively

It is shown that in a rational conformal field theory every torus one-point function of a given highest weight state satisfies a modular differential equation. We derive and solve these differential equations explicitly for some Virasoro…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias R Gaberdiel , Samuel Lang

Using the shadow formalism we find global conformal blocks of torus CFT$_2$. It is shown that $n$-point torus blocks in the ``necklace'' channel (a loop with $n$ legs) are expressed in terms of a hypergeometric-type function which we refer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-25 K. B. Alkalaev , Semyon Mandrygin

In the limit of large central charge $c$ the 4-point Virasoro conformal block becomes a hypergeometric function. It is represented by a sum of chiral Nekrasov functions, which can also be explicitly evaluated. In this way the known proof of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-25 A. Mironov , A. Morozov

We study out-of-time ordered four-point functions in two dimensional conformal field theories by suitably analytically continuing the Euclidean correlator. For large central charge theories with a sparse spectrum, chaotic dynamics is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Chi-Ming Chang , David M. Ramirez , Mukund Rangamani

We study N=1 superconformal theory in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence in the large central charge limit using Chern-Simons formulation of $3d$ gravity. In this limit conformal dimensions of a subclass of so-called light primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Vladimir Belavin , J. Ramos Cabezas

We classify the large $N$ limits of four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories with simple gauge groups that flow to superconformal fixed points. We restrict ourselves to the ones without a superpotential and with a fixed flavor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Prarit Agarwal , Ki-Hong Lee , Jaewon Song

The recursive relation for the 1-point conformal block on a torus is derived and used to prove the identities between conformal blocks recently conjectured by R. Poghossian. As an illustration of the efficiency of the recurrence method the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Leszek Hadasz , Zbigniew Jaskolski , Paulina Suchanek

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

We reexamine two-dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theory using the formalism previously developed in a study of sine-square deformation of Euclidean conformal field theory. We construct three types of Virasoro algebra. One of them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Xun Liu , Tsukasa Tada

We compute four-point functions of two heavy and two "perturbatively heavy" operators in the semiclassical limit of Liouville theory on the sphere. We obtain these "Heavy-Heavy-Light-Light" (HHLL) correlators to leading order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 Vijay Balasubramanian , Alice Bernamonti , Ben Craps , Tim De Jonckheere , Federico Galli

We revisit the line of non-unitary theories that interpolate between the Virasoro minimal models. Numerical bootstrap applications have brought about interest in the four-point function involving the scalar primary of lowest dimension.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-08 Connor Behan