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Classical conformal blocks naturally appear in the large central charge limit of 2D Virasoro conformal blocks. In the $AdS_{3}/CFT_{2}$ correspondence, they are related to classical bulk actions and are used to calculate entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-10 Máté Lencsés , Fábio Novaes

We derive and solve the difference equations on the toric modular kernel following from the consistency relations in the fusion algebra. The result is explicit and simple series expansion for the toric modular kernel of non-degenerate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-12 Nikita Nemkov

An effective theory designed to compute Virasoro identity blocks at large central charge, expressed in terms of the propagation of a reparametrization/shadow mode between bilocal vertices, was recently put forward. In this paper I provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Kevin Nguyen

We propose a series representation for the Virasoro fusion and modular kernels at any irrational central charge. Two distinct, yet closely related formulas are needed for the cases $c\in \mathbb C \backslash (-\infty,1]$ and $c <1$. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-03 Julien Roussillon

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

We analytically determine the large central charge asymptotic expansion of the Virasoro conformal blocks entering in four-point functions with external degenerate operators on a sphere in $2d$ CFTs, and study its resurgence properties as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Agnese Bissi , Nicola Dondi , Alessandro Piazza , Tomas Reis , Marco Serone

We detail the application of bounding volume hierarchies to accelerate second-virial evaluations for arbitrary complex particles interacting through hard and soft finite-range potentials. This procedure, based on the construction of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-14 Maxime M. C. Tortora , Jonathan P. K. Doye

We revisit the construction of the 2d conformal blocks of primary operator four-point functions as bilocal vertex operator correlators. We find an additional interpretation as a path integral over the reparametrizations of an intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-20 Gideon Vos

The well-known modular property of the torus characters and torus partition functions of (rational) vertex operator algebras (VOAs) and 2d conformal field theories (CFTs) has been an invaluable tool for studying this class of theories. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Miranda C. N. Cheng , Terry Gannon , Guglielmo Lockhart

Black hole microstates and their approximate thermodynamic properties can be studied using heavy-light correlation functions in AdS/CFT. Universal features of these correlators can be extracted from the Virasoro conformal blocks in CFT2,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-08 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

In this paper, we study mixing rates for $\mathbb{T}^{d}$-extensions of hyperbolic flows. Given three closed orbits with their holonomies, we can relate them to a point in $\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$. We prove that the extension flow enjoys rapid…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Daofei Zhang

On the space of generic conformal blocks the modular transformation of the underlying surface is realized as a linear integral transformation. We show that the analytic properties of conformal block implied by Zamolodchikov's formula are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-30 Nikita Nemkov

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

In this paper, we study large $c$ Virasoro blocks by using the Zamolodchikov monodromy method beyond its known limits. We give an analytic proof of our recent conjectur, which implied that the asymptotics of the large $c$ conformal blocks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-07 Yuya Kusuki

We consider the conformal block decomposition in arbitrary exchange channels of a two-dimensional conformal field theory on a torus. The channels are described by diagrams built of a closed loop with external legs (a necklace sub-diagram)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-20 K. B. Alkalaev , Semyon Mandrygin , Mikhail Pavlov

In this paper, we investigate the trigonometric Heckman-Opdam polynomials of type $A_1$. We establish connections with ultraspherical polynomials and derive an explicit expression for the associated Poisson kernel. Using the product…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 B. Amri , A. Guesmi

We derive an asymptotic formula for operator product expansion coefficients of heavy operators in two dimensional conformal field theory. This follows from modular invariance of the genus two partition function, and generalises the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 John Cardy , Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield

The connection problem for isomonodromic tau functions on the one-punctured torus concerns the ratio between the tau function and its modular transform, associated to dual pants decompositions of the torus. In this paper, we study the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Fabrizio Del Monte , Harini Desiraju , Pavlo Gavrylenko

We compute observables in the interacting rank-one 6d $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ SCFT at large R-charge. We focus on correlators involving $\Phi^n$, namely symmetric products of the bottom component of the supermultiplet containing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Jonathan J. Heckman , Adar Sharon , Masataka Watanabe

We show how to compute conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations using the formalism described in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434, and present several explicit examples of blocks derived via this method. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-25 Jean-François Fortin , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba