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We clarify questions related to the convergence of the OPE and conformal block decomposition in unitary Conformal Field Theories (for any number of spacetime dimensions). In particular, we explain why these expansions are convergent in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Duccio Pappadopulo , Slava Rychkov , Johnny Espin , Riccardo Rattazzi

We use large spin perturbation theory and the Lorentzian inversion formula to compute order-$\varepsilon$ corrections to mixed correlators in the $O(n)$ Wilson-Fisher CFT in $4 - \varepsilon$ dimensions. In particular, we find the scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-10 Francesco Bertucci , Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak

As a new ingredient for analyzing the fine structure of entanglement, we study the symmetry resolution of the modular flow of $U(1)$-invariant operators in theories endowed with a global $U(1)$ symmetry. We provide a consistent definition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Giuseppe Di Giulio , Johanna Erdmenger

We study the large-charge sector of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with $SU(N)$ gauge group by constructing a special class of half-BPS heavy operators, termed "canonical operators". Such operators exhibit remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Augustus Brown , Francesco Galvagno , Alba Grassi , Cristoforo Iossa , Congkao Wen

In this paper we have considered the 3D Ising model perturbed with the energy operator coupled with a non uniform harmonic potential acting as a trap, showing that this system satisfies the trap-size scaling behavior. Eventually, we have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Andrea Amoretti , Gianluca Costagliola , Nicodemo Magnoli , Marcello Scanavino

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

We study behaviour of the critical $O(N)$ vector model with quartic interaction in $2 \leq d \leq 6$ dimensions to the next-to-leading order in the large-$N$ expansion. We derive and perform consistency checks that provide an evidence for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Mikhail Goykhman , Michael Smolkin

We study the structure of the four-point correlation function of the lowest-dimension 1/2 BPS operators (stress-tensor multiplets) in the (2,0) six-dimensional theory. We first discuss the superconformal Ward identities and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Arutyunov , E. Sokatchev

We consider several aspects of unitary higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We first study massive deformations that trigger a flow to a gapped phase. Deep inelastic scattering in the gapped phase leads to a convexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Zohar Komargodski , Alexander Zhiboedov

We revisit the calculation of spectral densities and heavy-heavy-light (HHL) operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients in three-dimensional conformal field theories using thermal one-point functions on $S^1 \times S^2$. A central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Ilija Burić , Francesco Mangialardi , Francesco Russo , Volker Schomerus , Alessandro Vichi

We elaborate on various aspects of the conformal field theory of the symmetric orbifold. We collect various results that have appeared in the literature, and we present a coherent picture of the operator content of this CFT, relying on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Konstantinos Roumpedakis

Correlators in symmetric orbifold CFTs are given by a finite sum of admissible branched covers of the 2d spacetime. We consider a Gross-Mende like limit where all operators have large twist, and show that the corresponding branched covers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Rajesh Gopakumar , Bob Knighton , Pronobesh Maity

We use the recently developed navigator method to obtain rigorous upper and lower bounds on new OPE data in the 3d Ising CFT. For example, assuming that there are only two $\mathbb{Z}_2$-even scalar operators $\epsilon$ and $\epsilon'$ with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-23 Marten Reehorst

Carrollian conformal field theory offers an alternative description of massless scattering amplitudes, that is holographic in nature. In an effort to build a framework that is both predictive and constraining, we construct operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Kevin Nguyen , Jakob Salzer

We analytically calculate higher order corrections to coefficient functions of the operator product expansion (OPE) for the Euclidean correlator of two energy-momentum tensors in massless QCD. These are the three-loop contribution to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 M. F. Zoller , K. G. Chetyrkin

We develop a semiclassical framework to determine scaling dimensions of neutral composite operators in scalar conformal field theories. For the critical Ising $\lambda\phi^4$ theory in $d=4-\epsilon$, we obtain the full spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-12 Oleg Antipin , Jahmall Bersini , Jacob Hafjall , Giulia Muco , Francesco Sannino

Recent work using a large-charge expansion for the $O(N)$ Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory has shown that the anomalous dimensions of large-charge operators can be expressed in terms of a few low-energy constants (LECs) of a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-03-02 Hersh Singh

We analyze the one-loop correction to the three-point function coefficient of scalar primary operators in N=4 SYM theory. By applying constraints from the superconformal symmetry, we demonstrate that the type of Feynman diagrams that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Kazumi Okuyama , Li-Sheng Tseng

We perform exact computations of correlation functions of 1/2-BPS local operators and protected operator insertions on the 1/8-BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. This generalizes the results of our previous paper arXiv:1802.05201,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

We derive a compact analytic formula for a complete basis of conformally invariant tensor structures for three-point functions of conserved operators in arbitrary 4D Lorentz representations. The construction follows directly from a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Paul Heslop , Hector Puerta Ramisa