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We study energy correlations in states created by a heavy operator acting on the vacuum in a conformal field theory. We argue that the energy correlations in such states exhibit two characteristic regimes as functions of the angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-22 D. Chicherin , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev , A. Zhiboedov

Two-point correlation functions of spin operators in the minimal models ${{\cal M}}_{p,p'}$ perturbed by the field $\Phi_{13}$ are studied in the framework of conformal perturbation theory. The first-order corrections for the structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. A. Belavin , V. A. Belavin , A. V. Litvinov , Y. P. Pugai , Al. B. Zamolodchikov

Recently, the conformal-bootstrap has been successfully used to obtain generic bounds on the spectrum and OPE coefficients of unitary conformal field theories. In practice, these bounds are obtained by assuming the existence of a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Micha Berkooz , Ran Yacoby , Amir Zait

We construct orthogonality relations in the Separation of Variables framework for the sl(2) sector of planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we find simple universal measures that make Q-functions of operators with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Till Bargheer , Carlos Bercini , Andrea Cavaglià , Davide Lai , Paul Ryan

We discuss conserved currents and operator product expansions (OPE's) in the context of a $O(N)$ invariant conformal field theory. Using OPE's we find explicit expressions for the first few terms in suitable short-distance limits for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Anastasios Petkou

We compute the simplest non-trivial Operator Product Expansion of Wilson-'t Hooft loop operators in N=4 and N=2 Super-Yang-Mills theory with gauge group G=PSU(3). This amounts to finding the Euler characters of certain vector bundles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-02 Ruxandra Moraru , Natalia Saulina

Correlators of Wilson loop operators with O_4=Tr(F_{\mu\nu}^2+...) are computed in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The results are compared with the leading order perturbative computations. As a consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Erickson , G. W. Semenoff , K. Zarembo

The operator product expansion (OPE) on the celestial sphere of conformal primary gluons and gravitons is studied. Asymptotic symmetries imply recursion relations between products of operators whose conformal weights differ by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger , Ellis Ye Yuan

We consider correlation functions of topologically twisted, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group ${\rm SU}(2)$ and $N_f\leq 3$ massive hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. For a smooth, compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

Superconformal Ward identities are revisited in the context of superconformal line defects. Multipoint correlators of topological operators inserted on superconformal lines are studied. In particular, it is known that protected operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Gabriel Bliard

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

In the present work, we study celestial correlators of light transformed gluon operators at tree level. We also discuss the transformation of light transformed operators under the action of 4D translations. The two, three and four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sayali Atul Bhatkar

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 revisit the calculation of instanton effects in correlation functions in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM involving the Konishi operator and operators of twist two. Previous studies revealed that the scaling dimensions and the OPE coefficients of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Luis F. Alday , Gregory P. Korchemsky

A generalization of the operator product expansion for Euclidean correlators of gauge invariant QCD currents is presented. Each contribution to the modified expansion, which is based on a delocalized multipole expansion of a perturbatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Ralf Hofmann

We study five-point correlators of the $\sigma$, $\epsilon$, and $\epsilon'$ operators in the critical 3d Ising model. We consider the $\sigma \times \sigma$ and $\sigma \times \epsilon$ operator product expansions (OPEs) and truncate them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

We study the 3-point functions of single-trace scalar operators in a four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM theory with gauge group $\mathrm{SU}(N)$ and matter in the symmetric plus anti-symmetric representation, which has a vanishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , A. Pini , P. Vallarino

Following recent work on heavy-light correlators in higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a large central charge $C_T$, we clarify the properties of stress tensor composite primary operators of minimal twist, $[T^m]$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang , David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter , David Simmons-Duffin

Integrands for colour ordered scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 SYM are dual to those of correlation functions of the energy-momentum multiplet of the theory. The construction can relate amplitudes with different numbers of legs. By graph…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Raquel G. Ambrosio , Burkhard Eden , Timothy Goddard , Paul Heslop , Charles Taylor