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We set up the conventional conformal bootstrap equations in Mellin space and analyse the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients of large spin double trace operators. By decomposing the equations in terms of continuous Hahn polynomials,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Parijat Dey , Kausik Ghosh , Aninda Sinha

We study the behaviour of the conformal block expansions of scalar fivepoint Lorentzian conformal correlators in the limit where multiple cross ratios approach zero. Since this limit is controlled by intermediate operators with large spin,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Pulkit Agarwal

In this work we initiate a positive semi-definite numerical bootstrap program for multi-point correlators. Considering six-point functions of operators on a line we reformulate the crossing symmetry equation for a pair of comb-channel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-19 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj , Volker Schomerus

We study logarithmic conformal field theory (LogCFT) in four dimensions using conformal bootstrap techniques in the large spin limit. We focus on the constraints imposed by conformal symmetry on the four point function of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey

We analytically study the lightcone limit of the conformal bootstrap equations for 4-point functions containing global symmetry currents and the stress tensor in 3d CFTs. We show that the contribution of the stress tensor to the anomalous…

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

In the context of planar conformal gauge theory, we study five-point correlation functions between the interaction Lagrangian and four of the lightest single-trace, gauge-invariant scalar primaries. After performing two light-cone OPEs, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-16 Till Bargheer , Carlos Bercini , Bruno Fernandes , Vasco Gonçalves , Jeremy Mann

We introduce the notion of Multichannel Conformal Blocks relevant for the Operator Product Expansion for Null Polygon Wilson loops with more than six edges. As an application of these, we decompose the one loop heptagon Wilson loop and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira

Higher-point correlation functions encode the data of infinitely many 4-point correlators in conformal field theory (CFT). In this paper, we develop new tools to efficiently extract this data from multi-point crossing equations. Concretely,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj

In this note we consider the problem of extracting the corrections to CFT data induced by the exchange of a primary operator and its descendents in the crossed channel. We show how those corrections which are analytic in spin can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-18 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

We prove that in any unitary CFT, a twist gap in the spectrum of operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalar primary operators (i.e. $\phi\times \phi$) implies the existence of a family of primary operators $\mathcal{O}_{\tau,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Sridip Pal , Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

We generalize the computation of anomalous dimension and correction to OPE coefficients at finite conformal spin considered recently in \cite{arXiv:1806.10919, arXiv:1808.00612} to arbitrary space-time dimensions. By using the inversion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-04 Carlos Cardona , Sunny Guha , Surya Kiran Kanumilli , Kallol Sen

We analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on the four-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet of ${\cal N}=8$ superconformal field theories in three dimensions. We first derive the superconformal blocks by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Shai M. Chester , Jaehoon Lee , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

Applications of the bootstrap program to superconformal field theories promise unique new insights into their landscape and could even lead to the discovery of new models. Most existing results of the superconformal bootstrap were obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-12 Martina Cornagliotto , Madalena Lemos , Volker Schomerus

The construction of conformal blocks for the analysis of multipoint correlation functions with $N > 4$ local field insertions is an important open problem in higher dimensional conformal field theory. This is the first in a series of papers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-18 Ilija Buric , Sylvain Lacroix , Jeremy Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus

We perform a numerical bootstrap study of the mixed correlator system containing the half-BPS operators of dimension two and three in $\mathcal N = 4$ Super Yang-Mills. This setup improves on previous works in the literature that only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Agnese Bissi , Andrea Manenti , Alessandro Vichi

We perform a comprehensive perturbative study of the operator spectrum in multi-scalar theories with hypercubic global symmetry. This includes working out symmetry representations and their corresponding tensor structures. These structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-22 Alexander Bednyakov , Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos

We use the superconformal bootstrap to derive exact relations between OPE coefficients in three-dimensional superconformal field theories with ${\cal N} \geq 4$ supersymmetry. These relations follow from a consistent truncation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Shai M. Chester , Jaehoon Lee , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We apply analytic bootstrap techniques to the four-point correlator of fundamental fields in the Wilson-Fisher model. In an $\epsilon$-expansion crossing symmetry fixes the double discontinuity of the correlator in terms of CFT data at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Luis F. Alday , Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

General principles of quantum field theory imply that there exists an operator product expansion (OPE) for Wightman functions in Minkowski momentum space that converges for arbitrary kinematics. This convergence is guaranteed to hold in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-01 Marc Gillioz , Xiaochuan Lu , Markus A. Luty , Guram Mikaberidze