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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

The operator product expansion (OPE) of twist operators in the replica trick framework enables a long-distance expansion of the mutual information (MI) in conformal field theories (CFTs). In this expansion, the terms are labeled by primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-05 Cesar A. Agon , Horacio Casini , Umut Gürsoy , Guim Planella Planas

We discuss the current use of the operator product expansion in QCD calculations. Treating the OPE as an expansion in inverse powers of an energy-squared variable (with possible exponential terms added), approximating the vacuum expectation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jan Fischer , Ivo Vrkoc

The operator product expansion (OPE) of the Wilson surface operators in six-dimensional (2, 0) superconformal field theory is studied from AdS/CFT correspondence in this paper. We compute the OPE coefficients of the chiral primary operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bin Chen , Chang-Yong Liu , Jun-Bao Wu

We study five-point correlation functions of scalar operators in d-dimensional conformal field theories. We develop a new approach to computing the five-point conformal blocks for exchanged primary operators of arbitrary spin by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

In this work, we fix the leading term in the operator algebra of light-transformed operators in the context of flat space holography. Starting with light-transformed graviton correlators, we show that the OPE obtained by taking the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu

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

Operator product expansion (OPE) of two operators in two-dimensional conformal field theory includes a sum over Virasoro descendants of other operator with universal coefficients, dictated exclusively by properties of the Virasoro algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-07 A. Mironov , Al. Morozov , And. Morozov

We study holographic defect conformal field theories which are dual to probe branes with bottom-up methods. First we determine the embedding of codimension-1 interface branes in AdS space. Then we compute defect one and two-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Georgios Linardopoulos , Chanyong Park

We introduce a symmetric operad whose algebras are the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) Algebras of quantum fields. There is a natural classical limit for the algebras over this operad and they are commutative associative algebras with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-13 Nikolay M. Nikolov

We show how to construct embedding space three-point functions for operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations by employing the formalism developed in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434. We study tensor structures that intertwine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Jean-François Fortin , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

The power corrections in the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) of QCD correlators can be viewed mathematically as an illustration of the transseries concept, which allows to recover a function from its asymptotic divergent expansion.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-29 Irinel Caprini

We compute anomalous dimensions of higher spin operators in Conformal Field Theory at arbitrary space-time dimension by using the OPE inversion formula of \cite{Caron-Huot:2017vep}, both from the position space representation as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Cardona , Kallol Sen

Visible-sector SUSY-breaking effects are computed in terms of hidden-sector correlation functions for generic holomorphic scalar portals. The solutions, which are valid irrespective of the hidden-sector dynamics, are approximated with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-01 Jean-François Fortin , Shanny Pelchat-Voyer

We revisit the calculation of spectral densities and heavy-heavy-light (HHL) operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients in three-dimensional conformal field theories using thermal one-point functions on $S^1 \times S^2$. A central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Ilija Burić , Francesco Mangialardi , Francesco Russo , Volker Schomerus , Alessandro Vichi

We present an algorithm for constructing the Wilson operator product expansion (OPE) for perturbative interacting quantum field theory in general Lorentzian curved spacetimes, to arbitrary orders in perturbation theory. The remainder in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Hollands

We argue that multi-trace deformations of the boundary CFT in AdS/CFT correspondence can arise through the OPE of single-trace operators. We work out the example of a scalar field in AdS_5 with cubic self interaction. By an appropriate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Petkou

We describe how to implement the conformal bootstrap program in the context of the embedding space OPE formalism introduced in previous work. To take maximal advantage of the known properties of the scalar conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

We compute $d$-dimensional scalar six-point conformal blocks in the two possible topologies allowed by the operator product expansion. Our computation is a simple application of the embedding space operator product expansion formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Witold Skiba

We prove convergence and compatibility of iterated bulk and boundary operator product expansions (OPEs) in two-dimensional conformal field theory with locally $C_1$-cofinite chiral symmetry. For each tree, we give an explicit domain of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Yuto Moriwaki