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We calculate the Mellin moments of the $O(\alpha_s^2)$ coefficient functions for the unpolarized and polarized fragmentation functions. They can be expressed in terms of multiple finite harmonic sums of maximal weight {\sf w = 4}. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Blümlein , V. Ravindran

Celestial amplitudes, obtained by applying Mellin transform and analytic continuation on "ordinary" amplitudes, have interesting properties which may provide useful insights on the underlying theory. Their analytic structures are thus of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Jiayin Gu , Ying-Ying Li , Lian-Tao Wang

We first provide some properties of the Mellin transform of nonnegative random variables, such that monotonicity, injectivity and effect of size biasing. Convergence of Mellin transforms is also entirely formalized through convergence in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Wisssem al Jedidi , Fethi Bouzeffour , Nouf Harthi

We present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain OPE coefficients, we find a plethora of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Matthew S. Mitchell

We elaborate on some general aspects of the crossing symmetric approach of Polyakov to the conformal bootstrap, as recently formulated in Mellin space. This approach uses, as building blocks, Witten diagrams in AdS. We show the necessity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Rajesh Gopakumar , Aninda Sinha

We apply the Mellin-Barnes integral representation to several situations of interest in mathematical-physics. At the purely mathematical level, we derive useful asymptotic expansions of different zeta-functions and partition functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 E. Elizalde , K. Kirsten , S. Zerbini

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Conventional functional/path integrals used in physics are most often defined and understood, either explicitly or implicitly, as the infinite-dimensional analog of Fourier transform. In this paper, the infinite-dimensional analog of Mellin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 J. LaChapelle

We study the renormalization group flow equations for correlation functions of weakly coupled quantum field theories in AdS. Taking the limit where the external points approach the conformal boundary, we obtain a flow of conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-27 Markus B. Fröb

We derive semi--analytic expressions for the analytic continuation of the Mellin transforms of the heavy flavor QCD coefficient functions for neutral current deep inelastic scattering in leading and next-to-leading order to complex values…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Sergey I. Alekhin , Johannes Blümlein

In the setting of the multidimensional Mellin analysis we introduce moduli of continuity and use them to define Besov-Mellin spaces. We prove that Besov-Mellin spaces are the interpolation spaces (in the sense of J.Peetre) between two…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Isaac Z. Pesenson

Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi

We consider weakly-coupled QFT in AdS at finite temperature. We compute the holographic thermal two-point function of scalar operators in the boundary theory. We present analytic expressions for leading corrections due to local quartic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Luis F. Alday , Murat Kologlu , Alexander Zhiboedov

We perform a systematic bootstrap analysis of four-point one-loop Mellin amplitudes for super gluons in $\mathrm{AdS}_5\times\mathrm{S}^3$ with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein weights. The analysis produces the general expressions for these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Zhongjie Huang , Bo Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan , Xinan Zhou

We continue our study of the defect CFT on a Maldacena-Wilson line in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory using Bootstrability -- the conformal bootstrap supplemented with exact integrability data. In this paper, we extend this program to charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti , Nika Sergeevna Sokolova

We further develop celestial Mellin amplitudes arXiv:2412.11992 to capture the exchange of particles with spin. For massless external scalar fields, we derive closed-form celestial Mellin amplitudes for a spin-1 and spin-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Sébastien Malherbe , Paolo Pergola , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We use analytic bootstrap techniques for a CFT with an interface or a boundary. Exploiting the analytic structure of the bulk and boundary conformal blocks we extract the CFT data. We further constrain the CFT data by applying the equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-21 Parijat Dey , Alexander Söderberg

In this note we show that for an arbitrary semisimple Lie group and any admissible irreducible Banach representation the Mellin transforms of Whittaker functions extend to meromorphic functions. We locate the possible poles.

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We study analytically the constraints of the conformal bootstrap on the low-lying spectrum of operators in field theories with global conformal symmetry in one and two spacetime dimensions. We introduce a new class of linear functionals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Dalimil Mazac

In this paper, we create a Mellin space method for boundary correlation functions in de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces. We demonstrate that the analytic continuation between AdS${}_{d+1}$ and dS${}_{d+1}$ is encoded in a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Sayantan Choudhury