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We analytically determine the large central charge asymptotic expansion of the Virasoro conformal blocks entering in four-point functions with external degenerate operators on a sphere in $2d$ CFTs, and study its resurgence properties as a…

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We consider two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs), which exhibit a hallmark feature of quantum chaos: universal repulsion of energy levels as described by a regime of linear growth of the spectral form factor. This physical input…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-09 Felix M. Haehl , Wyatt Reeves , Moshe Rozali

In two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), multi-stress tensor exchanges between probe operators give rise to the Virasoro identity conformal block, which is fixed by symmetry. The analogous object, and the corresponding organizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Felix M. Haehl , Kuo-Wei Huang

We consider two-dimensional chiral, first-order conformal field theories governing maps from the Riemann sphere to the projective light cone inside Minkowski space -- the natural setting for describing conformal field theories in two fewer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Tim Adamo , Ricardo Monteiro , Miguel F. Paulos

We examine two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) at central charge c=0. These arise typically in the description of critical systems with quenched disorder, but also in other contexts including dilute self-avoiding polymers and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

Holographic CFTs admit a dual emergent description in terms of semiclassical general relativity minimally coupled to matter fields. While the gravitational interactions are required to be suppressed by the Planck scale, the matter sector is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Luis Apolo , Alexandre Belin , Suzanne Bintanja

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

Out of time ordered correlators (OTOCs) are useful tools for investigating foundational questions such as thermalization in closed quantum systems because they can potentially distinguish between integrable and nonintegrable dynamics. Here…

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We show how conformal partial waves (or conformal blocks) of spinor/tensor correlators can be related to each other by means of differential operators in four dimensional conformal field theories. We explicitly construct such differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

We study general correlation functions of various quantum field theories in the holographic setup. Following the holographic proposal, we investigate correlation functions via a geodesic length connecting boundary operators. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Hanse Kim , Jitendra Pal , Chanyong Park

We compute Out-of-Time-Order correlators (OTOCs) for conformal field theories (CFTs) subjected to either continuous or discrete periodic drive protocols. This is achieved by an appropriate analytic continuation of the stroboscopic time.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Suchetan Das , Bobby Ezhuthachan , Arnab Kundu , Somnath Porey , Baishali Roy , K. Sengupta

The time-dependence of multi-point observable correlation functions are essential quantities in analysis and simulation of quantum dynamics. Open quantum systems approaches utilize two-point correlations to describe the influence of an…

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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Sabrina Pasterski , Herman Verlinde

Conformal field theories (CFTs) in Euclidean signature satisfy well-accepted rules, such as conformal invariance and the convergent Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Nowadays, it is common to assume that CFT correlators exist and…

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Virasoro conformal blocks are universal ingredients of correlation functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) with Virasoro symmetry. It is acknowledged that in the (classical) limit of large central charge of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 M. R. Piatek , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. Puente , A. R. Pietrykowski

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We demonstrate that various aspects of Conformal Field Theory are amenable to machine learning. Relatively modest feed-forward neural networks are able to distinguish between scale and conformal invariance of a three-point function and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-21 Heng-Yu Chen , Yang-Hui He , Shailesh Lal , M. Zaid Zaz

Warped conformal field theories in two dimensions are exotic nonlocal, Lorentz violating field theories characterized by Virasoro-Kac-Moody symmetries and have attracted a lot of attention as candidate boundary duals to warped AdS$_3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Gaurav Katoch , Shubho R. Roy

The Hamiltonian governing the gravitational interaction of N relativistic particles in a four-dimensional anti-de Sitter background is derived to leading order in Newton's constant. The resulting pairwise interactions, combined with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-10 David A. Lowe , Larus Thorlacius

The decomposition of correlation functions into conformal blocks is an indispensable tool in conformal field theory. For spinning correlators, non-trivial tensor structures are needed to mediate between the conformal blocks, which are…

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