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We start by defining two-particle operators that appear in celestial CFT. We then show how to compute their OPE coefficients with the known single-particle operators at tree level from multiparticle factorization channels, focusing on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-21 Alfredo Guevara , Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

We consider two-point correlators in SU(N) gauge theories on R4 with N=2 supersymmetry and Nf massless hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. Using localization on S4, we compute the leading perturbative corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 M. Billo , F. Fucito , A. Lerda , J. F. Morales , Ya. S. Stanev , Congkao Wen

The 4D 4-point scattering amplitude of massless scalars via a massive exchange is expressed in a basis of conformal primary particle wavefunctions. This celestial amplitude is expanded in a basis of 2D conformal partial waves on the unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Alexander Atanasov , Walker Melton , Ana-Maria Raclariu , Andrew Strominger

We study the two-point correlation functions of chiral/anti-chiral operators in $N=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories on $R^4$ with gauge group SU(N) and $N_f$ massless hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. We compute them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 M. Billo , F. Fucito , G. P. Korchemsky , A. Lerda , J. F. Morales

We study two-point correlation functions of chiral/anti-chiral operators in SU(N) $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with massless hyper-multiplets in a representation $\mathcal{R}$ associated with a non-vanishing $\beta$-function. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 M. Billo , L. Griguolo , A. Lerda , A. Testa

An important part of a CFT four-point function, the stress tensor sector, comprises the exchanges of the stress tensor and its composites. The OPE coefficients of these multi-stress tensor operators and consequently, the complete stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

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 analyse the 3-point CFT correlators involving non-conserved spinning operators in momentum space. We derive a general expression for the conformal Ward identities defining the 3-point functions involving two generic spin $s$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Raffaele Marotta , Kostas Skenderis , Mritunjay Verma

We analyze the momentum-space representations of the Lorentzian correlators of scalar primary operators in an arbitrary 2D CFT. These correlators characterize the effective dynamics of open quantum systems. We derive the results from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Lorenzo Toni

We compute bulk 3- and 4-point tachyon correlators in the 2d Liouville gravity with non-rational matter central charge c<1, following and comparing two approaches. The continuous CFT approach exploits the action on the tachyons of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 I. K. Kostov , V. B. Petkova

We consider heavy-heavy-light-light (HHLL) correlators in AdS/CFT, focussing on the D1D5 CFT$_2$ and the ${\cal N}= 4$ super Yang-Mills theory. Out of the lightest $1/2$-BPS operator in the spectrum, $O$, we construct a particular heavy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo

We show that two- and three-point celestial (C)CFT$_{d-1}$ amplitudes can be directly obtained from correlation functions in a unitary Lorentzian CFT$_d$ on $\mathbb{R}\times S^{d-1}$. The recipe involves a rescaling of the operators,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Leonardo Pipolo de Gioia , Ana-Maria Raclariu

We discuss recent results on two-point functions of chiral primary operators in {\cal N}=4 SU(N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Our results give further support to the belief that such correlators are not renormalized to all orders in g…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Penati , A. Santambrogio , D. Zanon

We compute exactly various 4-point correlation functions of shortest scalar operators in bi-scalar planar four-dimensional "fishnet" CFT. We apply the OPE to extract from these functions the exact expressions for the scaling dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Nikolay Gromov , Vladimir Kazakov , Gregory Korchemsky

In this work, we study the $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS heavy-heavy-light-light correlators in the D1D5 CFT and its holographic dual. On the field theory side, we compute the fermionic four-point correlators at the free orbifold point. On the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Jia Tian , Jue Hou , Bin Chen

We derive the rapidity evolution equation for the gluon four-point function in the dilute regime and at small x from the JIMWLK functional equation. We show that beyond leading order in Nc the mean field (Gaussian) approximation where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 Adrian Dumitru , Jamal Jalilian Marian

Superconformal transformations are derived for the $\N=2,4 supermultiplets corresponding to the simplest chiral primary operators. These are applied to two, three and four point correlation functions. When $\N=4$, results are obtained for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

We present calculation of the correlation function of three twist-2 operators in the BFKL limit. The calculation is performed in N = 4 SYM but the result is valid in other gauge theories such as QCD. The obtained leading order structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-13 Ian Balitsky , Vladimir Kazakov , Evgeny Sobko

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

We argue that every CFT contains light-ray operators labeled by a continuous spin J. When J is a positive integer, light-ray operators become integrals of local operators over a null line. However for non-integer J, light-ray operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin