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Seven-point functions have two inequivalent topologies or channels. The comb channel has been computed previously and here we compute scalar conformal blocks in the extended snowflake channel in $d$ dimensions. Our computation relies on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , 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 define and compute the four-dimensional thermal $n$-point conformal block in the projection channel using oscillator representations on $\mathbb{S}^1_\beta \times \mathbb{S}^3$. This is done by evaluating a class of integrals over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

We compute the conformal blocks associated with scalar-scalar-fermion-fermion 4-point functions in 3D CFTs. Together with the known scalar conformal blocks, our result completes the task of determining the so-called `seed blocks' in three…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-08 Luca Iliesiu , Filip Kos , David Poland , Silviu S. Pufu , David Simmons-Duffin , Ran Yacoby

We give a holographic description of global conformal blocks in two dimensional conformal field theory on the sphere and on the torus. We show that the conformal blocks for one-point functions on the torus can be written as Witten diagrams…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Per Kraus , Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Gim Seng Ng , Jie-qiang Wu

We develop the relation between gravitational Wilson line networks, defined as a particular product of Wilson line operators averaged over the cap states, and conformal correlators in the context of the AdS$_2$/CFT$_1$ correspondence. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-30 K. B. Alkalaev , A. O. Kanoda , V. S. Khiteev

An explicit analytic formula is presented that computes the conformal (super-)block decomposition of any free scalar or half-BPS diagram in 1d, 2d or 4d CFTs, with various supersymmetries, including none. We prove our formula by exploiting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. J. Heslop , M. Santagata

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

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

We study the momentum-space 4-point correlation function of identical scalar operators in conformal field theory. Working specifically with null momenta, we show that its imaginary part admits an expansion in conformal blocks. The blocks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-29 Marc Gillioz

Conformal blocks are a central analytic tool for higher dimensional conformal field theory. We employ Harish-Chandra's radial component map to construct universal Casimir differential equations for spinning conformal blocks in any dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus

We investigate the constraints of crossing symmetry on CFT correlation functions. Four point conformal blocks are naturally viewed as functions on the upper-half plane, on which crossing symmetry acts by PSL(2,Z) modular transformations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Gim Seng Ng

We introduce a large class of conformally-covariant differential operators and a crossing equation that they obey. Together, these tools dramatically simplify calculations involving operators with spin in conformal field theories. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin

In this work we initiate an integrability-based approach to multipoint conformal blocks for higher dimensional conformal field theories. Our main observation is that conformal blocks for $N$-point functions may be considered as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Ilija Buric , Sylvain Lacroix , Jeremy A. Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus

We continue to develop the holographic interpretation of classical conformal blocks in terms of particles propagating in an asymptotically $AdS_3$ geometry. We study $n$-point block with two heavy and $n-2$ light fields. Using the worldline…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 K. B. Alkalaev , V. A. Belavin

We explore conformally coupled scalar theory in AdS$_{6}$ extensively and their classical solutions by employing power expansion order by order in its self-interaction coupling $\lambda$. We study holographic correlation functions of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jae-Hyuk Oh

We study conformal blocks for thermal one-point-functions on the sphere in conformal field theories of general dimension. These thermal conformal blocks satisfy second order Casimir differential equations and have integral representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Yan Gobeil , Alexander Maloney , Gim Seng Ng , Jie-qiang Wu

As anticipated in [1], elaborated in [2-4], and explicitly formulated in [5], the Dotsenko-Fateev integral discriminant coincides with conformal blocks, thus providing an elegant approach to the AGT conjecture, without any reference to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-05 A. Mironov , A. Morozov , Sh. Shakirov

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

We present a new algorithm for the numerical evaluation of five-point conformal blocks in $d$-dimensions, greatly improving the efficiency of their computation. To do this we use an appropriate ansatz for the blocks as a series expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić