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We construct, for spin $0,1,2$ tensor fields on S$^d$, a set of ladder operators that connect the distinct UIRs of SO$(d+1)$. This is achieved by relying on the conformal Killing vectors of S$^d$. For the case of spinning fields, the ladder…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-30 Vasileios A. Letsios , Matías N. Sempé , Guillermo A. Silva

We introduce a large class of conformally-covariant differential operators and a crossing equation that they obey. Together, these tools dramatically simplify calculations involving operators with spin in conformal field theories. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin

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

We construct the Wightman function for symmetric traceless tensors and Dirac fermions in dS$_{d+1}$ in a coordinate and index free formalism using a $d+2$ dimensional ambient space. We expand the embedding space formalism to cover spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Ben Pethybridge , Vladimir Schaub

We study conformal blocks for thermal one-point-functions on the sphere in conformal field theories of general dimension. These thermal conformal blocks satisfy second order Casimir differential equations and have integral representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Yan Gobeil , Alexander Maloney , Gim Seng Ng , Jie-qiang Wu

The calculation of both spinor and tensor Green's functions in four-dimensional conformally invariant field theories can be greatly simplified by six-dimensional methods. For this purpose, four-dimensional fields are constructed as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Steven Weinberg

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 note we study the possible connection between functions appearing in diagrammatic expansion and the conformal correlator expansion. To study the connection we propose a generating function which can be expanded to construct a basis.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Sunny Guha , Kallol Sen

We construct conformal three-point functions in momentum space with a general tensor and conserved currents of spin $1$ and $2$. While conformal correlators in momentum space have been studied especially in the connection with cosmology,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-17 Hiroshi Isono , Toshifumi Noumi , Toshiaki Takeuchi

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

Conformal blocks for correlation functions of tensor operators play an increasingly important role for the conformal bootstrap programme. We develop a universal approach to such spinning blocks through the harmonic analysis of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-07 Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko , Mikhail Isachenkov

In celestial conformal field theory, gluons are represented by primary fields with dimensions $\Delta=1+i\lambda$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$ and spin $J=\pm 1$, in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. All two- and three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

It is shown that Weyl spinors in 4D Minkowski space are composed of primary fields of half-integer conformal weights. This yields representations of fermionic 2-point functions in terms of correlators of primary fields with a factorized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Rainer Dick

The construction of conformal blocks for the analysis of multipoint correlation functions with $N > 4$ local field insertions is an important open problem in higher dimensional conformal field theory. This is the first in a series of papers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-18 Ilija Buric , Sylvain Lacroix , Jeremy Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus

Conformal blocks are the building blocks for correlation functions in conformal field theories. The four-point function is the most well-studied case. We consider conformal blocks for $n$-point correlation functions. For conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Vladimir Rosenhaus

We reduce the computation of three point function of three spinning operators with arbitrary polarizations to a statistical mechanics problem via the hexagon formalism. The central building block of these correlation functions is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Goncalves , Alexandre Homrich , Pedro Vieira

We suggest a certain type of conformal $n$-point function of scalar primaries where the scalar operators share the same scaling dimension. The conformal correlation functions are obtained in momentum space, and we show that they satisfy the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Jae-Hyuk Oh

We work out all of the details required for implementation of the conformal bootstrap program applied to the four-point function of two scalars and two vectors in an abstract conformal field theory in arbitrary dimension. This includes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Fernando Rejon-Barrera , Daniel Robbins

We present a comprehensive discussion of tree-level holographic $4$-point functions of scalar operators in momentum space. We show that each individual Witten diagram satisfies the conformal Ward identities on its own and is thus a valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

We study three-point correlation functions of scalar operators in conformal field theories with boundaries and interfaces. We focus on two cases where there are one bulk and two boundary operators (B$\partial\partial$), or two bulk and one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Junding Chen , Xinan Zhou