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We clarify questions related to the convergence of the OPE and conformal block decomposition in unitary Conformal Field Theories (for any number of spacetime dimensions). In particular, we explain why these expansions are convergent in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Duccio Pappadopulo , Slava Rychkov , Johnny Espin , Riccardo Rattazzi

In this paper we consider anomalous dimensions of double trace operators at large spin ($\ell$) and large twist ($\tau$) in CFTs in arbitrary dimensions ($d\geq 3$). Using analytic conformal bootstrap methods, we show that the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-21 Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

A simple realization of the conformal higher spin symmetry on the free $3d$ massless matter fields is given in terms of an auxiliary Fock module both in the flat and $AdS_3$ case. The duality between non-unitary field-theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Shaynkman , M. A. Vasiliev

We continue the study of model-independent constraints on the unitary Conformal Field Theories in 4-Dimensions, initiated in arXiv:0807.0004. Our main result is an improved upper bound on the dimension \Delta of the leading scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Vyacheslav S. Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

We study the first sub-leading correction $O((\ln s)^0)$ to the cusp anomalous dimension in the high spin expansion of finite twist operators in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory. Since this approximation is still governed by a linear integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Davide Fioravanti , Paolo Grinza , Marco Rossi

In a recent publication we have investigated the spectrum of anomalous dimensions for arbitrary composite operators in the critical N-vector model in 4-epsilon dimensions. We could establish properties like upper and lower bounds for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Stefan K. Kehrein , Franz Wegner

We compute, using the method of large spin perturbation theory, the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients of all leading twist operators in the critical $ O(N) $ model, to fourth order in the $ \epsilon $-expansion. This is done fully…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

Motivated by recent work on the utility of Mellin space for representing conformal correlators in $AdS$/CFT, we study its suitability for representing dual conformal integrals of the type which appear in perturbative scattering amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Miguel F. Paulos , Marcus Spradlin , Anastasia Volovich

We consider conformal field theories with slightly broken higher spin symmetry in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. We analyze the crossing equation in the double light-cone limit and solve for the anomalous dimensions of higher spin currents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Luis F. Alday , Alexander Zhiboedov

Further results for conformal partial waves for four point functions for conformal primary scalar fields in conformally invariant theories are obtained. They are defined as eigenfunctions of the differential Casimir operators for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-01 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

We consider four-dimensional N=2 superconformal field theories based on ADE quiver diagrams. We use the procedure of hep-th/0206079 and compute the exact anomalous dimensions of operators with large U(1)_R charge to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Yaron Oz , Tadakatsu Sakai

We apply the method of the large spin bootstrap to analyse fermionic conformal field theories with weakly broken higher spin symmetry. Through the study of correlators of composite operators, we find the anomalous dimensions and OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Mark van Loon

In this note, we present an alternative representation of the conformal block with external scalars in general spacetime dimensions in terms of a finite summation over Appell fourth hypergeometric function ${\bf{F}}_4$. We also construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Heng-Yu Chen , Hideki Kyono

We extend the results of arXiv:1401.1645 on the generalized conformal Sp(2n)-structure of infinite multiplets of higher spin fields, formulated in spaces with extra tensorial directions (hyperspaces), to the description of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-10 Ioannis Florakis , Dmitri Sorokin , Mirian Tsulaia

We use the on-shell S-matrix and form factors to compute anomalous dimensions of higher dimension operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory. We find that in many instances, these computations are made simple by using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-21 Joan Elias Miró , James Ingoldby , Marc Riembau

In this paper we consider $\phi^4$ theory in $4-\epsilon$ dimensions at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point where the theory becomes conformal. We extend the method in arXiv:1505.00963 for calculating the leading order term in the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Konstantinos Roumpedakis

We review the computation of the anomalous dimension of twist operators in the planar limit of N=4 SYM using the asymptotic Bethe ansatz and demonstrate how this quantity is obtained at weak, strong and intermediate values of the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Lisa Freyhult

The dynamical symmetries of $1+1$-dimensional Matrix Partial Differential Equations with a Calogero potential (with/without the presence of an extra oscillatorial De Alfaro-Fubini-Furlan, DFF, damping term) are investigated. The first-order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-05 Francesco Toppan , Mauricio Valenzuela

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) for scalar conformal defects of any codimension in CFT. The OPE for defects is decomposed into "defect OPE blocks", the irreducible representations of the conformal group, each of which packages…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Masayuki Fukuda , Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

We determine the anomalous dimension matrix for the transversity operator mixing into total derivative operators in the limit of a large number of quark flavors $n_f$ to fourth order in the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-23 S. Van Thurenhout