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We investigate loop corrections to the four-point function of identical scalar operators in a four-dimensional large $N$ conformal field theory, holographically dual to AdS with a quartic interaction. We focus on the universal part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Mohammad Reza Khansari

Superconformal blocks and crossing symmetry equations are among central ingredients in any superconformal field theory. We review the approach to these objects rooted in harmonic analysis on the superconformal group that was put forward in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Ilija Buric

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

We consider the maximal operator with respect to uncentered cubes on Euclidean space with arbitrary dimension. We prove that for any function with bounded variation, the variation of its maximal function is bounded by the variation of the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Julian Weigt

We explicitly construct a class of multivariate generalized hypergeometric series which is conjectured in our previous paper [Alkalaev & Mandrygin 2025] to calculate multipoint one-loop parametric conformal integrals in $D$ dimensions. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 K. B. Alkalaev , Semyon Mandrygin

For H a separable infinite dimensional complex Hilbert space, we prove that every B(H) operator has a basis with respect to which its matrix representation has a universal block tridiagonal form with block sizes given by a simple…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Sasmita Patnaik , Srdjan Petrovic , Gary Weiss

We study large $c$ conformal blocks outside the known limits. This work seems to be hard, but it is possible numerically by using the Zamolodchikov recursion relation. As a result, we find new some properties of large $c$ conformal blocks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuya Kusuki

Correlation matrices are omnipresent in multivariate data analysis. When the number d of variables is large, the sample estimates of correlation matrices are typically noisy and conceal underlying dependence patterns. We consider the case…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Samuel Perreault , Thierry Duchesne , Johanna G. Nešlehová

The six-derivative conformal scalar operator was originally found by Hamada in its critical dimension of spacetime, $d=6$. We generalize this construction to arbitrary dimensions $d$ by adding new terms cubic in gravitational curvatures and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Lesław Rachwał , Públio Rwany B. R. do Vale

We discuss conformal manifolds for conformal field theories with boundaries or defects. Using conformal perturbation theory we derive constraints on coefficients appearing in the boundary operator product expansion and three-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Andreas Karch , Yoshiki Sato

This paper presents a method to decompose an op-amp into its functional blocks. The method is able to recognize functional blocks on a high level of abstraction as loads or amplification stages which have a large set of possible structural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Inga Abel , Maximilian Neuner , Helmut Graeb

We develop the theory of irregular conformal blocks of the Virasoro algebra. In previous studies, expansions of irregular conformal blocks at regular singular points were obtained as degeneration limits of regular conformal blocks; however,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Hajime Nagoya

We go beyond a systematic review of the semiclassical approaches for determining the scaling dimensions of fixed-charge operators in $U(1)$ and $O(N)$ models by introducing a general strategy apt at determining the relation between a given…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Oleg Antipin , Jahmall Bersini , Francesco Sannino , Zhi-Wei Wang , Chen Zhang

We develop techniques for computing superconformal blocks in 4d superconformal field theories. First we study the super-Casimir differential equation, deriving simple new expressions for superconformal blocks for 4-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Zuhair U. Khandker , Daliang Li , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We present explicit recursive relations for the four-point superconformal block functions that are essentially particular contributions of the given conformal class to the four-point correlation function. The approach is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Belavin

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

Three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with $N$ charged fermions contains monopole operators that have been studied perturbatively at large $N$. Here, we initiate the study of these monopole operators in the $4-\epsilon$ expansion by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-13 Shai M. Chester , Mark Mezei , Silviu S. Pufu , Itamar Yaakov

We consider large-$c$ $n$-point Virasoro blocks with $n-k$ background heavy operators and $k$ perturbative heavy operators. Conformal dimensions of heavy operators scale linearly with large $c$, while splitting into background/perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 K. B. Alkalaev , Mikhail Pavlov

It was demonstrated in recent work that $d=4$ unitary CFT's satisfy a special property: if a scalar operator with conformal dimension $\Delta$ exists in the operator spectrum, then the conformal bootstrap demands that large spin primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-12 Gideon Vos

In this work we launch a systematic theory of superconformal blocks for four-point functions of arbitrary supermultiplets. Our results apply to a large class of superconformal field theories including 4-dimensional models with any number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko