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We present further mathematical results on a function appearing in the conformal blocks of four-point correlation functions with arbitrary quasi-primary operators. The $H$-function was introduced in a previous article and it has several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-01 Vincent Comeau , Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

We perform a comprehensive perturbative study of the operator spectrum in multi-scalar theories with hypercubic global symmetry. This includes working out symmetry representations and their corresponding tensor structures. These structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Alexander Bednyakov , Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos

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

In this paper we develop further the relation between conformal four-point blocks involving external spinning fields and Calogero-Sutherland quantum mechanics with matrix-valued potentials. To this end, the analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

We obtain infinitely many boundary operators in the Brownian loop soup in the subcritical phase by analyzing the conformal block expansion of the two-point function that computes the probability of having two marked points on the upper…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Federico Camia , Rongvoram Nivesvivat

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 work out all of the details required for implementation of the conformal bootstrap program applied to the four-point function of two scalars and two vectors in an abstract conformal field theory in arbitrary dimension. This includes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Fernando Rejon-Barrera , Daniel Robbins

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

We introduce the notion of Multichannel Conformal Blocks relevant for the Operator Product Expansion for Null Polygon Wilson loops with more than six edges. As an application of these, we decompose the one loop heptagon Wilson loop and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

We describe a prescription for constructing conformal blocks in conformal field theories in any space-time dimension with arbitrary quantum numbers. Our procedure reduces the calculation of conformal blocks to constructing certain group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

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 the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity in general 3D Conformal Field Theories. In doing so we derive new results for conformal blocks appearing in four-point functions of scalars and present an efficient method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

Irregular conformal block is an important tool to study a new type of conformal theories, which can be constructed as the colliding limit of the regular conformal block. The irregular conformal block is realized as the $\beta$-deformed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Sang-Kwan Choi , Chaiho Rim

We use modular invariance and crossing symmetry of conformal field theory to reveal approximate reflection symmetries in the spectral decompositions of the partition function in two dimensions in the limit of large central charge and of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Hyungrok Kim , Petr Kravchuk , Hirosi Ooguri

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

Various aspects of the four point function for scalar fields in conformally invariant theories are analysed. This depends on an arbitrary function of two conformal invariants u,v. A recurrence relation for the function corresponding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

We define transformation of multiplets of fields (Jordan cells) under the D-dimensional conformal group, and calculate two and three point functions of fields, which show logarithmic behaviour. We also show how by a formal differentiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Ghezelbash , V. Karimipour

This paper develops a method to compute any bosonic conformal block as a series expansion in the optimal radial coordinate introduced by Hogervorst and Rychkov. The method reduces to the known result when the external operators are all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Miguel S. Costa , Tobias Hansen , João Penedones , Emilio Trevisani

We construct new, efficient, and accurate high-order finite differencing operators which satisfy summation by parts. Since these operators are not uniquely defined, we consider several optimization criteria: minimizing the bandwidth, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Diener , Ernst Nils Dorband , Erik Schnetter , Manuel Tiglio

Conformal nets provide a mathematical formalism for conformal field theory. Associated to a conformal net with finite index, we give a construction of the `bundle of conformal blocks', a representation of the mapping class groupoid of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 Arthur Bartels , Christopher L. Douglas , André Henriques