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Correlators of unitary quantum field theories in Lorentzian signature obey certain analyticity and positivity properties. For interacting unitary CFTs in more than two dimensions, we show that these properties impose general constraints on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Sandipan Kundu

We study light-ray operators constructed from the energy-momentum tensor in $d$-dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theory. These include in particular the average null energy operator. The commutators of parallel light-ray operators on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-02 Clay Cordova , Shu-Heng Shao

We analyze the commutation relations of light-ray operators in conformal field theories. We first establish the algebra of light-ray operators built out of higher spin currents in free CFTs and find explicit expressions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Gregory P. Korchemsky , Alexander Zhiboedov

We compute anomalous dimensions of higher spin operators in Conformal Field Theory at arbitrary space-time dimension by using the OPE inversion formula of \cite{Caron-Huot:2017vep}, both from the position space representation as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Cardona , Kallol Sen

We explore the OPE of certain twist operators in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs, extending our previous work arXiv:1804.01562 to the case of $\mathcal{N}=(4,4)$ supersymmetry. We consider a class of twist operators related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas de Beer , Benjamin A. Burrington , Ian T. Jardine , A. W. Peet

We develop a formalism to study the implications of causality on OPE coefficients in conformal field theories with large central charge and a sparse spectrum of higher spin operators. The formalism has the interpretation of a new conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini

Under the spin-position decoupling approximation, a vector with a phase in 3D orientation space endowed with geometric algebra, substitutes the vector-matrix spin model built on the Pauli spin operator. The standard quantum operator-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Sokol Andoni

In the present work, we study celestial correlators of light transformed gluon operators at tree level. We also discuss the transformation of light transformed operators under the action of 4D translations. The two, three and four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sayali Atul Bhatkar

We discuss some general aspects of commutators of local operators in Lorentzian CFTs, which can be obtained from a suitable analytic continuation of the Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Commutators only make sense as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-02 Mert Besken , Jan de Boer , Grégoire Mathys

It's well known that in conformal theories the two- and three-point functions of a subset of the local operators-the conformal primaries-suffice, via the operator product expansion (OPE), to determine all local correlation functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-01 Jean-François Fortin , Kenneth Intriligator , Andreas Stergiou

In this work, we fix the leading term in the operator algebra of light-transformed operators in the context of flat space holography. Starting with light-transformed graviton correlators, we show that the OPE obtained by taking the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Sourish Banerjee , Rudranil Basu

We apply the OPE inversion formula on thermal two-point functions of fermions to obtain thermal one-point function of fermion bi-linears appearing in the corresponding OPE. We primarily focus on the OPE channel which contains the stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Justin R. David , Srijan Kumar

We construct a new representation for two- and three-point correlators of operators from sl(2) sector of planar N = 4 SYM. The spin and twist of operators are arbitrary. We start with the correlation function of light-ray operators and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Evgeny Sobko

We investigate the heavy-light four-point function up to double-stress-tensor, supplementing 1910.06357. By using the OPE coefficients of lowest-twist double-stress-tensor in the literature, we find the Regge behavior for lowest-twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Yue-Zhou Li , Hao-Yu Zhang

We study the $TT$ OPE in $d>2$ CFTs whose bulk dual is Einstein gravity. Directly from the $TT$ OPE, we obtain, in a certain null-like limit, an algebraic structure consistent with the Jacobi identity: $[{\cal L}_m, {\cal L}_n]= (m-n) {\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Kuo-Wei Huang

This note is an extension of a recent work on the analytical bootstrapping of $O(N)$ models. An additonal feature of the $O(N)$ model is that the OPE contains trace and antisymmetric operators apart from the symmetric-traceless objects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Parijat Dey , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen

Correlation functions of energy flow operators (energy-energy correlators) are one of the simplest observables in quantum field theory and gravity, with diverse applications ranging from real world collider physics to constraining the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult , Matthew T. Walters , Yuan Xin

We study five-point correlation functions of scalar operators in d-dimensional conformal field theories. We develop a new approach to computing the five-point conformal blocks for exchanged primary operators of arbitrary spin by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

The four-dimensional $S$-matrix is reconsidered as a correlator on the celestial sphere at null infinity. Asymptotic particle states can be characterized by the point at which they enter or exit the celestial sphere as well as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Laura Donnay , Andrea Puhm , Andrew Strominger

We consider the D1D5 CFT near the orbifold point and develop methods for computing the mixing of untwisted operators to first order by using the OPE on the covering surface. We argue that the OPE on the cover encodes both the structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Benjamin A. Burrington , Ian T. Jardine , Amanda W. Peet