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We consider conformal defects with spins under the rotation group acting on the transverse directions. They are described in the embedding space formalism in a similar manner to spinning local operators, and their correlation functions with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

The requirements of conformal invariance for two and three point functions for general dimension $d$ on flat space are investigated. A compact group theoretic construction of the three point function for arbitrary spin fields is presented…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Osborn , A. Petkos

We investigate the structure of the constraints on three-point correlation functions emerging when conformal invariance is imposed in momentum space and in arbitrary space-time dimensions, presenting a derivation of their solutions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Emil Mottola , Mirko Serino

In this article, we explicitly compute in momentum space the three and four-point correlation functions involving scalar and spinning operators in the free bosonic and the free fermionic theory in three dimensions. We also evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-18 Sachin Jain , Renjan Rajan John , Vinay Malvimat

In conformal field theory in Minkowski momentum space, the 3-point correlation functions of local operators are completely fixed by symmetry. Using Ward identities together with the existence of a Lorentzian operator product expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-24 Marc Gillioz

The most general operator product expansion in conformal field theory is obtained using the embedding space formalism and a new uplift for general quasi-primary operators. The uplift introduced here, based on quasi-primary operators with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

We show how to compute conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations using the formalism described in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434, and present several explicit examples of blocks derived via this method. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-25 Jean-François Fortin , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

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

In this paper we develop further the relation between conformal four-point blocks involving external spinning fields and Calogero-Sutherland quantum mechanics with matrix-valued potentials. To this end, the analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

We use the embedding formalism to construct conformal fields in $D$ dimensions, by restricting Lorentz-invariant ensembles of homogeneous neural networks in $(D+2)$ dimensions to the projective null cone. Conformal correlators may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 James Halverson , Joydeep Naskar , Jiahua Tian

We derive expressions for conformal blocks involving operators with arbitrary spins in 3-dimensional CFTs. We use previous results on the action of the OPE in the embedding space to derive the conformal blocks. The blocks are given as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Jean-François Fortin , Jingping Li , Alex Sandomirsky , Witold Skiba

Here we discuss the construction of Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant objects in the twistor space for three dimensional conformal field theories. The Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant projective delta function, alongside the Twistor symplectic dot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Aswini Bala , Dhruva K. S

We discuss a correlation function factorization, which relates a three-point function to the square root of three two-point functions. This factorization is known to hold for certain scaling operators at the two-dimensional percolation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob J. H. Simmons , Peter Kleban

We develop a flat-space holographic dictionary for a free massive spinor field in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, using the hyperbolic (Milne) slicing into $\mathbb H^3$ (Euclidean $\mathrm{AdS}_3$). Decomposing bulk fields into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Dmitry S. Ageev , Anna S. Bernakevich

We study the momentum-space 4-point correlation function of identical scalar operators in conformal field theory. Working specifically with null momenta, we show that its imaginary part admits an expansion in conformal blocks. The blocks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-29 Marc Gillioz

The decomposition of 4-point correlation functions into conformal partial waves is a central tool in the study of conformal field theory. We compute these partial waves for scalar operators in Minkowski momentum space, and find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Marc Gillioz

We study 2-point correlation functions for scalar operators in position space through holography including bulk cubic couplings as well as higher curvature couplings to the square of the Weyl tensor. We focus on scalar operators with large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Hare Krishna , D. Rodriguez-Gomez

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 consider a free massive spinor field in Euclidean Anti-de Sitter space. The usual Dirac action in bulk is supplemented by a certain boundary term. The boundary conditions of the field are parametrized by a spinor on the boundary, subject…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Mans Henningson , Konstadinos Sfetsos

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou