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We explore how to compute, classically at strong coupling, correlation functions of local operators corresponding to classical spinning string states. The picture we obtain is of `fattened' Witten diagrams, the evaluation of which turns out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Romuald A. Janik , Piotr Surowka , Andrzej Wereszczynski

We study conformal conserved currents in arbitrary irreducible representations of the Lorentz group using the embedding space formalism. With the help of the operator product expansion, we first show that conservation conditions can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-10 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

Using unfolded formulation of free equations for massless fields of all spins we obtain explicit form of higher-spin conformal conserved charges bilinear in 4d massless fields of arbitrary spins.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 O. A. Gelfond , E. D. Skvortsov , M. A. Vasiliev

We study three-dimensional conformal field theories with a large-$N$ limit. Leveraging the framework of slightly broken higher-spin symmetry, we bootstrap correlation functions between the single-trace, local operators and straight,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Gwenaël Ferrando , Amit Sever , Elior Urisman

We compute conformal correlation functions with spinor, tensor, and spinor-tensor primary fields in general dimensions with Euclidean and Lorentzian metrics. The spinors are taken to be Dirac spinors, which exist for any dimensions. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-16 Hiroshi Isono

We consider ${\mathcal N}=1$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions possessing an additional conserved spinor current multiplet $S_{\alpha}$ and study three-point functions involving such an operator. A conserved spinor current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-08 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Jessica Hutomo , Sergei M. Kuzenko

Gauge invariant conserved conformal currents built from massless fields of all spins in 4d Minkowski space-time and $AdS_4$ are described within the unfolded dynamics approach. The current cohomology associated with non-zero conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-21 O. A. Gelfond , M. A. Vasiliev

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

In this work, building up on [1] we present momentum space Ward identities related to broken higher spin symmetry as an alternate approach to computing correlators of spinning operators in interacting theories such as the quasi-fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Sachin Jain , Renjan Rajan John , Vinay Malvimat

We give an explicit superspace construction of higher spin conserved supercurrents built out of $4D,\mathcal{N}=1$ massless supermultiplets of arbitrary spin. These supercurrents are gauge invariant and generate a large class of cubic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 I. L. Buchbinder , S. James Gates , Konstantinos Koutrolikos

In the free $\Box^k$ scalar conformal field theory, there exist conserved and partially-conserved higher-spin currents. We study their anomalous dimensions associated with $\phi^{2n}$ interaction in the $\epsilon$ expansion. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-01 Yongwei Guo , Wenliang Li

We introduce simple group-theoretic techniques for classifying conformally-invariant tensor-structures. With them, we classify tensor structures of general n-point functions of non-conserved operators, and $n\geq 4$-point functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin

We develop the embedding formalism for conformal field theories, aimed at doing computations with symmetric traceless operators of arbitrary spin. We use an index-free notation where tensors are encoded by polynomials in auxiliary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

We propose field equations for the conformal higher spin system in three dimensions coupled to a conformal scalar field with a sixth order potential. Both the higher spin equation and the unfolded equation for the scalar field have source…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Bengt E. W. Nilsson

We consider mixed three-point correlation functions of the supercurrent and flavour current in three-dimensional $1 \leq \mathcal{N} \leq 4$ superconformal field theories. Our method is based on the decomposition of the relevant tensors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Benjamin J. Stone

The requirements of conformal invariance for two and three point functions for general dimension $d$ on flat space are investigated. A compact group theoretic construction of the three point function for arbitrary spin fields is presented…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Osborn , A. Petkos

We study $3d$ SCFTs in the superspace formalism and discuss superfields and on-shell higher spin current multiplets in free $3d$ SCFTs with $\mathcal{N}= 1,2,3,4$ and $6$ superconformal symmetry. For $\mathcal{N}=1$ 3d SCFTs we determine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Amin A. Nizami , Tarun Sharma , V. Umesh

In this paper we study the three-point correlation functions of two scalar operators with large conformal dimensions and the R-current or stress-energy tensor at strong coupling with the help of the AdS_4/CFT_3 correspondence. The scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-23 D. Arnaudov

We analyze the constraints on the general form and the singularity structure of the correlation functions of the symmetric, traceless and conserved stress-energy tensor implied by conformal invariance and higher spin symmetry in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yassen S. Stanev

Various formulas for currents with arbitrary spin are worked out in general space-time dimension, in the free field limit and, at the bare level, in presence of interactions. As the n-dimensional generalization of the (conformal) vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Anselmi