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We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

We show that the four-point functions in conformal field theory are defined as distributions on the boundary of the region of convergence of the conformal block expansion. The conformal block expansion converges in the sense of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Petr Kravchuk , Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

This paper is designed to be a practical tool for constructing and investigating two-point correlation functions in defect conformal field theory, directly in physical space, between any two bulk primaries or between a bulk primary and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Christopher P. Herzog , Abhay Shrestha

We elaborate on various aspects of the conformal field theory of the symmetric orbifold. We collect various results that have appeared in the literature, and we present a coherent picture of the operator content of this CFT, relying on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Konstantinos Roumpedakis

We use the embedding formalism to study correlation functions of a d-dimensional Euclidean CFT in the presence of a $q$ co-dimensional defect. The defect breaks the global conformal group $SO(d+1,1)$ into $SO(d-q+1,1) \times SO(q)$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-06 Sunny Guha , Balakrishnan Nagaraj

We consider perturbation defects obtained by perturbing a 2D conformal field theory (CFT) by a relevant operator on a half-plane. If the perturbed bulk theory flows to an infrared fixed point described by another CFT, the defect flows to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-25 Anatoly Konechny , Cornelius Schmidt-Colinet

In this paper, we investigate the correlation functions of the conformal field theory (CFT) with the $T\bar{T}$ deformation on torus in terms of perturbative CFT approach, which is the extension of the previous investigations on correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 Song He , Yuan Sun

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

In inflationary models where the source of scalar perturbations is not the inflaton, but one or more scalars with negligible coupling with the inflaton, the resulting perturbations are not only scale invariant, but fully conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Paolo Creminelli

Conformal Field Theory in a Minkowski setting is discussed in an embedding space approach, paying special attention to causality constraints for four-point amplitudes. The physics of dilatation and Lorentz boost is emphasized in specifying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-12 Pulkit Agarwal , Richard C. Brower , Timothy G. Raben , Chung-I Tan

In this paper, we analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on conformal theories in large dimensions. In particular, we show that in a unitary conformal theory in large dimension $D$, the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

The implications of restricted conformal invariance under conformal transformations preserving a plane boundary are discussed for general dimensions $d$. Calculations of the universal function of a conformal invariant $\xi$ which appears in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. M. McAvity , H. Osborn

We explore conformally coupled scalar theory in AdS$_{6}$ extensively and their classical solutions by employing power expansion order by order in its self-interaction coupling $\lambda$. We study holographic correlation functions of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jae-Hyuk Oh

We calculate the four point correlation function for scalar perturbations in the canonical model of slow-roll inflation. We work in the leading slow-roll approximation where the calculation can be done in de Sitter space. Our calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-14 Archisman Ghosh , Nilay Kundu , Suvrat Raju , Sandip P. Trivedi

We compute the fundamental correlation functions in two-dimensional rational conformal field theory, from which all other correlators can be obtained by sewing: the correlators of three bulk fields on the sphere, one bulk and one boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Jürgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

Defects in conformal field theory (CFT) are of significant theoretical and experimental importance. The presence of defects theoretically enriches the structure of the CFT, but at the same time, it makes it more challenging to study,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

Conformal field theory (CFT) is an extremely powerful tool for explicitly computing critical exponents and correlation functions of statistical mechanics systems at a second order phase transition, or of condensed matter systems at a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Alessandro Giuliani

We use modular invariance and crossing symmetry of conformal field theory to reveal approximate reflection symmetries in the spectral decompositions of the partition function in two dimensions in the limit of large central charge and of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Hyungrok Kim , Petr Kravchuk , Hirosi Ooguri

We calculate the leading contributions to the connected two-point functions of protected scalar operators in the defect version of N=4 SYM theory which is dual to the D5-D3 probe-brane system with k units of background gauge field flux.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Marius de Leeuw , Asger C. Ipsen , Charlotte Kristjansen , Kasper E. Vardinghus , Matthias Wilhelm

We present a dispersion relation in conformal field theory which expresses the four point function as an integral over its single discontinuity. Exploiting the analytic properties of the OPE and crossing symmetry of the correlator, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Tobias Hansen