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We study a product of null-integrated local operators $\mathcal{O}_1$ and $\mathcal{O}_2$ on the same null plane in a CFT. Such null-integrated operators transform like primaries in a fictitious $d-2$ dimensional CFT in the directions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Cyuan-Han Chang , Murat Kologlu , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov

We examine two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) at central charge c=0. These arise typically in the description of critical systems with quenched disorder, but also in other contexts including dilute self-avoiding polymers and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

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 four dimensional unitary scale invariant theories, arguments based on the proof of the a-theorem suggest that the trace of the energy-momentum tensor T vanishes when the momentum is light-like, p^2=0. We show that there exists a local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-21 Kazuya Yonekura

We consider the correlation function of a circular Wilson loop with two local scalar operators at generic 4-positions in planar N=4 supersymmetric gauge theory. We show that such correlator is fixed by conformal invariance up to a function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

Consistency with position space OPE limit requires momentum space CFT correlators to have only total energy singularity. We show that this requirement gives a simple proof of the known result that the parity-odd structure cannot exist for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-02 Sachin Jain , Renjan Rajan John , Abhishek Mehta , Dhruva K. S

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

I consider three-point functions of one protected and two unprotected twist-two operators with spin in N=4 SYM at weak coupling. At one loop I formulate an empiric conjecture for the dependence of the corresponding structure constants on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Marco S. Bianchi

We find the form of three-point correlation functions of traceless symmetric conserved currents of arbitrary spin in d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). These are fixed up to several constants by conformal symmetry and current…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-19 Alexander Zhiboedov

Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees of freedom. We study the CFT analog of this phenomenon, which we term the `eikonalization'…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-11 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Matthew T. Walters , Junpu Wang

It's well known that in conformal theories the two- and three-point functions of a subset of the local operators-the conformal primaries-suffice, via the operator product expansion (OPE), to determine all local correlation functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-01 Jean-François Fortin , Kenneth Intriligator , Andreas Stergiou

Following recent work on heavy-light correlators in higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a large central charge $C_T$, we clarify the properties of stress tensor composite primary operators of minimal twist, $[T^m]$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang , David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter , David Simmons-Duffin

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 consider the correlator <W_n O(x)> of a light-like polygonal Wilson loop with n cusps with a local operator (like the dilaton or the chiral primary scalar) in planar N =4 super Yang-Mills theory. As a consequence of conformal symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 L. F. Alday , E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

The Large Charge sector of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) can generically be described through a semiclassical expansion around a superfluid background. In this work, focussing on $U(1)$ invariant Wilson-Fisher fixed points, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Gil Badel , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi

We propose and explore the Regge limit for correlation functions of five local primary operators in conformal field theories. After reviewing some features of Regge theory for flat-space scattering amplitudes, we analyse the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-25 Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Aaditya Salgarkar , Joao Vilas Boas

We reinterpret and extend some old work on CFT/string duality. We consider some asymptotically conformal field theory in large N limit, with conformal symmetry broken by VEV's of infinite number of operators. Assuming that this theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-26 Alexander Migdal

We consider scalar local operators of the determinant type in the conformal ``fishnet'' theory that arises as a limit of gamma-deformed $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. We generalise a field-theory approach to expand their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-17 Omar Shahpo , Edoardo Vescovi

The Operator Product Expansion is a useful tool to represent correlation functions. In this note we extend Conformal Regge theory to provide an exact OPE representation of Lorenzian four-point correlators in conformal field theory, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Simon Caron-Huot , Joshua Sandor

Null Polygon Wilson Loops (WL) in N=4 SYM can be computed using the Operator Product Expansion in terms of a transition amplitude on top of a color flux tube (FT). That picture is valid at any value of the 't Hooft coupling. So far it has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Amit Sever , Pedro Vieira , Tianheng Wang