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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

We present a comprehensive analysis of the implications of conformal invariance for 3-point functions of the stress-energy tensor, conserved currents and scalar operators in general dimension and in momentum space. Our starting point is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

Motivated by questions about quantum information and classification of quantum field theories, we consider Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimension $d\geq 5$ with a conformally-invariant spatial boundary (BCFTs) or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Adam Chalabi , Christopher P. Herzog , Andy O'Bannon , Brandon Robinson , Jacopo Sisti

We analyse the general structure of the three-point functions of conserved higher-spin supercurrents in 3D, $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theory. It is shown that supersymmetry imposes additional restrictions on correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Benjamin J. Stone

In this paper, we prove that the "conformal collider bounds" originally proposed by Hofman and Maldacena hold for any unitary parity-preserving conformal field theory (CFT) with a unique stress tensor in spacetime dimensions larger than 2.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-13 Diego M. Hofman , Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland , Fernando Rejon-Barrera

Conformal symmetry has important consequences for strong interactions at short distances and provides powerful tools for practical calculations. Even if the Lagrangians of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and Electrodynamics (QED) are invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Matteo Maria Maglio , Riccardo Tommasi

Conformal field theory (CFT) plays a key role in modern theoretical physics. Through CFT we describe real physical systems at criticality and fixed points of the renormalization group flow. It is also central in the study of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Giulia Peveri

We discuss to what extent the full set of Ward Identities constrain the four-point function of the stress-energy tensors or conserved currents in a conformal field theory. We calculate the number of kinematically unrestricted functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-11 Anatoly Dymarsky

We present a study of the correlation function of three stress-energy tensors in $d$ dimensions using free field theory realizations, and compare them to the exact solutions of their conformal Ward identities (CWI's) obtained by a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Claudio Coriano , Matteo Maria Maglio

We study unitary conformal field theories with a unique stress tensor and at least one higher-spin conserved current in d>3 dimensions. We prove that every such theory contains an infinite number of higher-spin conserved currents of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Vasyl Alba , Kenan Diab

The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE coefficients of local operators. To shed light on this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Connor Behan

In this paper, we use crossing symmetry and unitarity constraints to put a lower bound on the central charge of conformal field theories in large space-time dimensions $D$. Specifically, we work with the four-point function of identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Abhijit Gadde , Mrunmay Jagadale , Shraiyance Jain , Trakshu Sharma

Detecting parity violation on cosmological scales would provide a striking clue to new physics. Large-scale structure offers the raw statistical power -- many three-dimensional modes -- to make such tests. However, for scalar observables,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zucheng Gao , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Zvonimir Vlah

Chiral currents influence the parity-odd sector of CFT correlators in momentum space, playing a crucial role in the evolution of the quark-gluon plasma in the early universe. We demonstrate that these parity-odd interactions, which couple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Claudio Corianó , Stefano Lionetti

We consider the Carrollian conformal field theories involving scalar operators in the momentum representation. The momentum space Ward identities are explicitly solved to obtain the different branches of 2 and 3 point Carrollian conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Raffaele Marotta , Arvind Shekar , Mritunjay Verma

We explore a class of CFT's with higher spin currents and charges. Away from the free or $N=\infty$ limit the non-conservation of currents is governed by operators built out of the currents themselves, which deforms the algebra of charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 Pavel Gerasimenko , Alexey Sharapov , Evgeny Skvortsov

We study the momentum space representation of energy-momentum tensor two-point functions on a space with a planar boundary in $d=3$. We show that non-conservation of momentum in the direction perpendicular to the boundary allows for new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Vladimir Prochazka

We investigate the structure of the constraints on three-point correlation functions emerging when conformal invariance is imposed in momentum space and in arbitrary space-time dimensions, presenting a derivation of their solutions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Emil Mottola , Mirko Serino

This article is the last of four that completely characterize a solution space $\mathcal{S}_N$ for a homogeneous system of $2N+3$ linear partial differential equations (PDEs) in $2N$ variables that arises in conformal field theory (CFT) and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Steven M. Flores , Peter Kleban

Using dispersion relations of the scattering amplitudes and semi-definite programming, we calculate causality bounds on the Wilson coefficients in scalar-tensor effective field theories that include parity-violating operators. Particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Hao Xu , Dong-Yu Hong , Zhuo-Hui Wang , Shuang-Yong Zhou