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Gravitational shockwaves are insensitive to higher-curvature corrections in the action. Recent work found that the OPE coefficients of lowest-twist multi-stress-tensor operators, computed holographically in a planar black hole background,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang , Daliang Li

By applying the stress-tensor-scalar operator product expansion (OPE) twice, we search for algebraic structures in $d=4$ conformal field theories (CFTs) with a pure Einstein gravity dual. We find that a rescaled mode operator defined by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Kuo-Wei Huang

We derive constraints on the operator product expansion of two stress tensors in conformal field theories (CFTs), both generic and holographic. We point out that in large $N$ CFTs with a large gap to single-trace higher spin operators, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter

The operator product expansion (OPE) on the celestial sphere of conformal primary gluons and gravitons is studied. Asymptotic symmetries imply recursion relations between products of operators whose conformal weights differ by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-28 Monica Pate , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger , Ellis Ye Yuan

We explore the consequences of conformal symmetry for the operator product expansions in nonrelativistic field theories. Similar to the relativistic case, the OPE coefficients of descendants are related to that of the primary. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Siavash Golkar , Dam T. Son

Correlation functions of energy flow operators (energy-energy correlators) are one of the simplest observables in quantum field theory and gravity, with diverse applications ranging from real world collider physics to constraining the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult , Matthew T. Walters , Yuan Xin

Carrollian conformal field theory offers an alternative description of massless scattering amplitudes, that is holographic in nature. In an effort to build a framework that is both predictive and constraining, we construct operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Kevin Nguyen , Jakob Salzer

Consider a conformally covariant four-point function of identical scalar operators with a discrete spectrum, a twist gap, and compatible with the unitarity conditions. We give a mathematical proof confirming that the spectrum and OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Balt C. van Rees

We investigate the heavy-light four-point function up to double-stress-tensor, supplementing 1910.06357. By using the OPE coefficients of lowest-twist double-stress-tensor in the literature, we find the Regge behavior for lowest-twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Yue-Zhou Li , Hao-Yu Zhang

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

We develop a formalism to study the implications of causality on OPE coefficients in conformal field theories with large central charge and a sparse spectrum of higher spin operators. The formalism has the interpretation of a new conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini

In this work we discuss an analytic bootstrap approach [1,2] in the context of spinning 4D conformal blocks [3,4]. As an example we study the simplest spinning case, the scalar-fermion correlator $\langle\phi\psi\phi\bar\psi\rangle$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev

In this paper analytical results are presented for higher order corrections to coefficient functions of the operator product expansion (OPE) for the correlator of two pseudoscalar gluonium operators \tilde{O}_1=G^{\mu \nu}\tilde{G}_{\mu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-25 M. F. Zoller

Motivated by applications to the study of ultracold atomic gases near the unitarity limit, we investigate the structure of the operator product expansion (OPE) in non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs). The main tool used in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Walter D. Goldberger , Zuhair U. Khandker , Siddharth Prabhu

We compute tree-level celestial operator product expansions (OPE) in a bosonic sub-sector of the Berkovits-Witten conformal supergravity from the scattering amplitudes in the MHV configuration. While the OPE between a leading soft graviton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Nirmal Ghorai , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We explore the connection between the operator product expansion (OPE) in the boundary and worldsheet conformal field theories in the context of AdS$_{d+1}$/CFT$_d$ correspondence. Considering single trace scalar operators in the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Sudip Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

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

Given a critical quantum spin chain described by a conformal field theory (CFT) at long distances, it is crucial to understand the universal conformal data. One most important ingredient is the operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-26 Yuhan Liu , Yijian Zou , Shinsei Ryu

In the conformal field theories having affine SL(2) symmetry, we study the operator product expansion (OPE) involving primary fields in highest weight representations. For this purpose, we analyze properties of primary fields with definite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Kazuo Hosomichi , Yuji Satoh

We study the $TT$ OPE in $d>2$ CFTs whose bulk dual is Einstein gravity. Directly from the $TT$ OPE, we obtain, in a certain null-like limit, an algebraic structure consistent with the Jacobi identity: $[{\cal L}_m, {\cal L}_n]= (m-n) {\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Kuo-Wei Huang