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We compute in closed analytical form the minimal set of "seed" conformal blocks associated to the exchange of generic mixed symmetry spinor/tensor operators in an arbitrary representation (l,\bar l) of the Lorentz group in four dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-13 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

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

This is a set of introductory lecture notes on conformal field theory. Unlike most existing reviews on the subject, CFT is presented here from the perspective of a unitary quantum field theory in Minkowski space-time. It begins with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Marc Gillioz

The bulk-to-boundary dictionary for 4D celestial holography is given a new entry defining 2D boundary states living on oriented circles on the celestial sphere. The states are constructed using the 2D CFT state-operator correspondence from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-04 Erin Crawley , Noah Miller , Sruthi A. Narayanan , Andrew Strominger

Six-dimensional superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have an atomic classification in terms of elementary building blocks, conformal systems that generalize matter and can be fused together to form all known 6d SCFTs in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Michele Graffeo , Andrea Sangiovanni

Carrollian conformal field theories (carrollian CFTs) are natural field theories on null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime or, in general, geometries with conformal carrollian structure. Using a basis transformation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-13 Jakob Salzer

Light-cone formulation of conformal field theory in space-time of arbitrary dimension is developed. Conformal fundamental and shadow fields with arbitrary conformal dimension and arbitrary spin are studied. Representation of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Metsaev

Globally conformal invariant quantum field theories in a D-dimensional space-time (D even) have rational correlation functions and admit an infinite number of conserved (symmetric traceless) tensor currents. In a theory of a scalar field of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ivan Todorov

The remarkably high energies of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have allowed for the first measurements of the shapes and scalings of multi-point correlators of energy flow operators, $\langle \Psi | \mathcal{E}(\vec n_1) \mathcal{E}(\vec…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Kyle Lee , Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult

We consider unitary CFTs with continuous global symmetries in $d>2$. We consider a state created by the lightest operator of large charge $Q \gg 1$ and analyze the correlator of two light charged operators in this state. We assume that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Daniel Jafferis , Baur Mukhametzhanov , Alexander Zhiboedov

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) on manifolds with a boundary. We can use conformal symmetry to constrain correlation functions of conformal invariant fields. We compute two-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

We study asymptotics of three point coefficients (light-light-heavy) and two point correlators in heavy states in unitary, compact $2$D CFTs. We prove an upper and lower bound on such quantities using numerically assisted Tauberian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Diptarka Das , Yuya Kusuki , Sridip Pal

We investigate exactly solvable two-dimensional conformal field theories that exist at generic values of the central charge, and that interpolate between A-series or D-series minimal models. When the central charge becomes rational,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Sylvain Ribault

One of the hallmarks of 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) is that on a partial tensor branch, all known theories resemble quiver gauge theories with links comprised of 6D conformal matter, a generalization of weakly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Fabio Apruzzi , Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison , Luigi Tizzano

We identify a means to explicitly construct primary operators of free conformal field theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimensions $d=2,~3$, and $4$. Working in momentum space with spinors, we find that the $N$-distinguishable-particle Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Brian Henning , Tom Melia

We consider theories in which a dark sector is described by a Conformal Field Theory (CFT) over a broad range of energy scales. A coupling of the dark sector to the Standard Model breaks conformal invariance. While weak at high energies,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-19 Sungwoo Hong , Gowri Kurup , Maxim Perelstein

We study detector operators measuring energy to a power $\Delta-2$ at null infinity in four-dimensional gauge theories and gravity. These operators transform as conformal primaries on the celestial sphere and provide a natural basis for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-03 Hernán A. González , Jakob Salzer

Recent attempts at the construction of holography for asymptotically flat spacetimes have taken two different routes. Celestial holography, involving a two dimensional (2d) CFT dual to 4d Minkowski spacetime, has generated novel results in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Arjun Bagchi , Shamik Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sudipta Dutta

In the bottom-up approach to celestial holography, it is tempting to define celestial amplitudes by transforming momentum-space amplitudes order by order in perturbation theory. We test this prescription in the exactly solvable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Adam Tropper

We present a systematic exploration of conformal field theories (CFTs) constrained by duality-inspired fusion rules using the conformal bootstrap. We classify the operator spectrum into three sectors: $[\sigma]$, $[\epsilon]$, and $[1]$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Yu Nakayama , Toshiki Onagi