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We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a Conformal Field Theory to have a description in terms of a perturbative Effective Field Theory in AdS. The first two conditions are well-known: the existence of a perturbative `1/N'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

We derive constraints on the operator product expansion of two stress tensors in conformal field theories (CFTs), both generic and holographic. We point out that in large $N$ CFTs with a large gap to single-trace higher spin operators, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter

We study observables in a conformal field theory which are very closely related to the ones used to describe hadronic events at colliders. We focus on the correlation functions of the energies deposited on calorimeters placed at a large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-16 Diego M. Hofman , Juan Maldacena

4D Lorentzian conformal field theory (CFT) is mapped into 5D anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS), from the viewpoint of "geometrizing" conformal current algebra. A large-N expansion of the CFT is shown to lead to (infinitely many) weakly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Raman Sundrum

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 investigate the behaviour of the mutual information $\mathcal{I}_{AB}$ between two "small" and wide separated spherical regions $A$ and $B$ in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM gauge theory dual to Type IIB string theory in $AdS_5 \times S^5$. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-06 Javier Molina-Vilaplana

Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees of freedom. We study the CFT analog of this phenomenon, which we term the `eikonalization'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-11 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Matthew T. Walters , Junpu Wang

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

In the conformal field theories having affine SL(2) symmetry, we study the operator product expansion (OPE) involving primary fields in highest weight representations. For this purpose, we analyze properties of primary fields with definite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Kazuo Hosomichi , Yuji Satoh

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 give a detailed Operator Product Expansion interpretation of the results for conformal 4-point functions computed from supergravity through the AdS/CFT duality. We show that for an arbitrary scalar exchange in AdS(d+1) all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Eric D'Hoker , Samir D. Mathur , Alec Matusis , Leonardo Rastelli

We explore the relation between positivity of the energy constraints in conformal field theories and causality in their dual gravity description. Our discussion involves CFTs with different central charges whose description, in the gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Xian O. Camanho , Jose D. Edelstein

We revisit the coalescence behavior of the atomic Schr\"odinger wave functions from the angle of an operator product expansion (OPE) within the nonrelativistic Coulomb-Schr\"odinger effective field theory. We take the electron-nucleus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Yingsheng Huang , Yu Jia , Rui Yu

We analytically solve the conformal bootstrap equations in the Regge limit for large N conformal field theories. For theories with a parametrically large gap, the amplitude is dominated by spin-2 exchanges and we show how the crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

Two AdS/CFT based energy loss models are used to compute the suppression and azimuthal correlations of heavy quarks in heavy ion collisions. The model with a velocity independent diffusion coefficient is in good agreement with B and D meson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-08 Robert Hambrock , William Alexander Horowitz

We study correlation functions of scalar operators on the boundary of the $AdS_3$ space deformed by moving massive particles in the context of the AdS/CFT duality. To calculate two-point correlation functions we use the geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-15 D. S. Ageev , I. Ya. Aref'eva , M. D. Tikhanovskaya

We present a detailed analysis of a scalar conformal four-point function obtained from AdS/CFT correspondence. We study the scalar exchange graphs in AdS and discuss their analytic properties. Using methods of conformal partial wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Hoffmann , A. C. Petkou , W. Ruehl

We consider the operator product expansion (OPE) structure of scalar primary operators in a generic Lorentzian CFT and its dual description in a gravitational theory with one extra dimension. The OPE can be decomposed into certain bi-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Heng-Yu Chen , Lung-Chuan Chen , Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

We construct both local states and scattering states with finite energy in global AdS by inserting properly regularized operators in the CFT of arbitrary conformal dimension $(\Delta)$ at an instant of time. We give the state fixed angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-26 David Berenstein , Joan Simon