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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 formulate a set of general rules for computing $d$-dimensional four-point global conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in the context of the embedding space operator product expansion formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

We study the kinematics of correlation functions of local and extended operators in a conformal field theory. We present a new method for constructing the tensor structures associated to primary operators in an arbitrary bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Edoardo Lauria , Marco Meineri , Emilio Trevisani

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Ilija Buric , Mikhail Isachenkov , Volker Schomerus

Using equivariant localization formulas we give a formula for conformal blocks at level one on the sphere as suitable polynomials. Using this presentation we give a generating set in the space of conformal blocks at any level if the marked…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2009-11-18 R. Rimanyi , A. Varchenko

We introduce a full set of rules to directly express all $M$-point conformal blocks in one- and two-dimensional conformal field theories, irrespective of the topology. The $M$-point conformal blocks are power series expansion in some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-17 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Witold Skiba

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

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 for four point functions for fields with arbitrary spins in two dimensions are obtained by evaluating an appropriate integral. The results are just products of hypergeometric functions of the conformally invariant cross…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Osborn

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

The explicit computation of higher-point conformal blocks in any dimension is usually a challenging task. For two-dimensional conformal field theories in Euclidean signature, the oscillator formalism proves to be very efficient. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

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 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

The generic structure of 4-point functions of fields residing in indecomposable representations of arbitrary rank is given. The presented algorithm is illustrated with some non-trivial examples and permutation symmetries are exploited to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Flohr , Marco Krohn

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

Extending previous work on 2 -- and 3 -- point functions, we study the 4 -- point function and its conformal block structure in conformal quantum mechanics CFT$_1$, which realizes the SO(2,1) symmetry group. Conformal covariance is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 R. Jackiw , S. -Y. Pi

In this article, we find a $q$-analogue for Fomin's formulas. The original Fomin's formulas relate determinants of random walk excursion kernels to loop-erased random walk partition functions, and our formulas analogously relate conformal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-27 Alex Karrila , Kalle Kytölä , Eveliina Peltola

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

These notes survey the theory of (twisted) conformal blocks from an algebro-geometric perspective and have two main goals. The first one is to summarize the construction of conformal blocks from vertex operator algebras, and to describe…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Chiara Damiolini
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