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We advance the multipoint lightcone bootstrap and compute anomalous dimensions of triple-twist operators at large spin. In contrast to the well-studied double-twist operators, triple-twist primaries are highly degenerate so that their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj , Jeremy A. Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus

We initiate the lightcone bootstrap analysis of multipoint correlators in a defect conformal field theory. The setup we consider is the three-point function of two bulk and one defect operator. Requiring consistency of the crossing equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Lorenzo Bianchi , Andrea Mattiello , Lorenzo Quintavalle

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Vilas Boas

We compute numerically the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several operators in the 3d Ising CFT, and then try to reverse-engineer the solution to crossing symmetry analytically. Our key tool is a set of new techniques for computing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-20 David Simmons-Duffin

We investigate the heavy-light four-point function up to double-stress-tensor, supplementing 1910.06357. By using the OPE coefficients of lowest-twist double-stress-tensor in the literature, we find the Regge behavior for lowest-twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Yue-Zhou Li , Hao-Yu Zhang

Near lightcone correlators are dominated by operators with the lowest twist. We consider the contributions of such leading lowest twist multi-stress tensor operators to a heavy-heavy-light-light correlator in a CFT of any even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

Consider a conformally covariant four-point function of identical scalar operators with a discrete spectrum, a twist gap, and compatible with the unitarity conditions. We give a mathematical proof confirming that the spectrum and OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Balt C. van Rees

Three-dimensional Chern-Simons vector models display an approximate higher spin symmetry in the large $N$ limit. Their single-trace operators consist of a tower of weakly broken currents, as well as a scalar $\sigma$ of approximate twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Ofer Aharony , Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Ran Yacoby

We study five-point correlation functions of scalar operators in d-dimensional conformal field theories. We develop a new approach to computing the five-point conformal blocks for exchanged primary operators of arbitrary spin by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

We initiate an exploration of the conformal bootstrap for $n>4$ point correlation functions. Here we bootstrap correlation functions of the lightest scalar gauge invariant operators in planar non-abelian conformal gauge theories as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Gonçalves , Pedro Vieira

We develop a bootstrap strategy to obtain the six-point function of supergravitons in $AdS_5\times S^5$ from symmetry constraints and consistency conditions. Compared to previous bootstrap algorithms, a novel feature is the use of lightcone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Vasco Goncalves , Maria Nocchi , Xinan Zhou

In this work we apply the lightcone bootstrap to a four-point function of scalars in two-dimensional conformal field theory. We include the entire Virasoro symmetry and consider non-rational theories with a gap in the spectrum from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Carlos Cardona , Cynthia Keeler , William Munizzi

We study heavy-light four-point function by employing Lorentzian inversion formula, where the conformal dimension of heavy operator is as large as central charge $C_T\rightarrow\infty$. We implement the Lorentzian inversion formula back and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Yue-Zhou Li

We employ a hybrid approach in determining the anomalous dimension and OPE coefficient of higher spin operators in the Wilson-Fisher theory. First we do a large spin analysis for CFT data where we use results obtained from the usual and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Parijat Dey , Apratim Kaviraj

We analytically study the lightcone limit of the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions containing scalars charged under global symmetries. We show the existence of large spin double-twist operators in various representations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-01 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland

We use analytic conformal bootstrap methods to determine the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients for large spin operators in general conformal field theories in four dimensions containing a scalar operator of conformal dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

We derive a Lorentzian OPE inversion formula for the principal series of $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$. Unlike the standard Lorentzian inversion formula in higher dimensions, the formula described here only applies to fully crossing-symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Dalimil Mazac

We develop the conformal bootstrap program for six-dimensional conformal field theories with $(2,0)$ supersymmetry, focusing on the universal four-point function of stress tensor multiplets. We review the solution of the superconformal Ward…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Christopher Beem , Madalena Lemos , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We present a new algorithm for the numerical evaluation of five-point conformal blocks in $d$-dimensions, greatly improving the efficiency of their computation. To do this we use an appropriate ansatz for the blocks as a series expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

We describe how to implement the conformal bootstrap program in the context of the embedding space OPE formalism introduced in previous work. To take maximal advantage of the known properties of the scalar conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba
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