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We derive an explicit form of a family of four-point Neveu-Schwarz blocks with $\hat c =1,$ external weights $\Delta_i = 1/8$ and arbitrary intermediate weight. The derivation is based on a set of identities obeyed in the free superscalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Leszek Hadasz , Zbigniew Jaskolski , Paulina Suchanek

In two dimensional conformal field theories the limit of large central charge plays the role of a semi-classical limit. Certain universal observables, such as conformal blocks involving the exchange of the identity operator, can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya

We derive Cardy-like formulas for the growth of operators in different sectors of unitary $2$ dimensional CFT in the presence of topological defect lines by putting an upper and lower bound on the number of states with scaling dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Sridip Pal , Zhengdi Sun

The interplay between cosmology and strongly coupled dynamics can yield transient spectral features that vanish at late times, but which may leave behind phenomenological signatures in the spectrum of primordial fluctuations. Of particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Jay Hubisz , Seung J. Lee , He Li , Bharath Sambasivam

Four-point gluon and graviton correlators in celestial holography are famously non-analytic, having distributional support. In this work, we propose an alternative graviton correlator that is analytic and displays several desirable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-02 Iustin Surubaru , Bin Zhu

Applying the Casimir operator to four-point functions in CFTs allows us to find the conformal blocks for any external operators. In this work, we initiate the program to find the superconformal blocks, using the super Casimir operator, for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Israel A. Ramírez

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

The full list of conserved conformal higher spin currents built from massless scalar and spinor fields is presented. It is shown that, analogously to the relationship between usual conformal and AdS symmetries, the set of the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Konstein , M. A. Vasiliev , V. N. Zaikin

We derive conformal blocks in an inverse spacetime dimension expansion. In this large D limit, the blocks are naturally written in terms of a new combination of conformal cross-ratios. We comment on the implications for the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , David Poland

We review recent progress on computing scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills at strong coupling by using the AdS/CFT duality. We do explicit computations by using both, dimensional regularization and a cut-off in the radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis F. Alday

Scattering amplitudes at weak coupling are highly constrained by Lorentz invariance, locality and unitarity, and depend on model details only through coupling constants and particle content. In this paper, we develop an understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-01 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Daniel Baumann , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green-Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincar\'e symmetry, but no 2d superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam Tropper

We study four-point correlation functions of four generic half-BPS supermultiplets of N=4 SCFT in four dimensions. We use the two-particle Casimir of four-dimensional superconformal algebra to derive superconformal blocks which contribute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

In this paper, we study the four-point celestial leaf amplitudes of massless scalar and MHV gluon scattering. These leaf amplitudes are non-distributional decompositions of the celestial amplitudes associated with a hyperbolic foliation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-21 Raju Mandal , Sagnik Misra , Partha Paul , Baishali Roy

We compute the four-point correlator of two gluon light-ray operators and two gluon primaries from the four-gluon celestial amplitude in $(2,2)$ signature spacetime. The correlator is non-distributional and allows us to verify that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Yangrui Hu , Luke Lippstreu , Marcus Spradlin , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant , Anastasia Volovich

The N = 2, 4 superconformal symmetry constraints in d = 4 for four point functions of chiral primary 1/2-BPS operators are derived. The operators are described by symmetric traceless tensors of the internal R-symmetry group. A substantial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 Michael Nirschl

In an arbitrary unitary 4D CFT we consider a scalar operator \phi, and the operator \phi^2 defined as the lowest dimension scalar which appears in the OPE \phi\times\phi with a nonzero coefficient. Using general considerations of OPE,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Riccardo Rattazzi , Vyacheslav S. Rychkov , Erik Tonni , Alessandro Vichi

In this paper, we make connection between CFT$_3$ three point correlation function of conserved currents and 4D three point amplitude of general spin massless gauge field explicit. We do so by taking flat space limit of momentum space CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-17 Sachin Jain , Abhishek Mehta

We compute the celestial correlators corresponding to tree-level 5-gluon amplitudes in the type I superstring theory. Since celestial correlation functions are obtained by integrating over the full range of energies, there is no obvious…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Lina Castiblanco , Gaston Giribet , Gabriel Marin , Francisco Rojas

Marginal operators in a d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT), those with conformal dimension $\Delta=d$, give us information about the space of related theories. This can be incredibly useful when trying to develop an intrinsic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Sruthi A. Narayanan