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We review some aspects of harmonic analysis for the Euclidean conformal group, including conformally-invariant pairings, the Plancherel measure, and the shadow transform. We introduce two efficient methods for computing these quantities:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin

We interpret appropriate families of Euclidean wormhole solutions of AdS$_3$ gravity in individual 2d CFTs as replica wormholes described by branching around the time-symmetric apparent horizons of black holes sourced by the backreaction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-15 Jeevan Chandra

We derive general bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. In any CFT containing a scalar primary phi of dimension d we show that crossing symmetry of <phi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

The thermodynamic stability of large AdS$_3$ black holes implies that Cardy's $\Delta\rightarrow\infty$ formula for the density of states remains approximately valid when $\Delta\sim c$ in holographic 2d CFTs, constraining their light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-09 Ben Michel

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

Correlation functions of local operators in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on hyperbolic space can be fully characterized by the set of QFT data $\lbrace \Delta_i,C_{ijk},b^{\hat{\mathcal{O}}}_j\rbrace$. These are the scaling dimensions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Manuel Loparco , Grégoire Mathys , Joao Penedones , Jiaxin Qiao , Xiang Zhao

We numerically study the crossing symmetry constraints in 4D CFTs, using previously introduced algorithms based on semidefinite programming. We study bounds on OPE coefficients of tensor operators as a function of their scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Caracciolo , Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

We apply the average null energy condition to obtain upper bounds on the three-point function coefficients of stress tensors and a scalar operator, $\langle TT {\cal O } \rangle,$ in general CFTs. We also constrain the gravitational anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Clay Cordova , Juan Maldacena , Gustavo J. Turiaci

There is a special set of massless four-dimensional gauge theories which admit local and gauge-anomaly-free uplifts to twistor space; we call such theories twistorial. In twistorial theories, generalized towers of soft modes (including…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Víctor E. Fernández , Natalie M. Paquette

It has long been known that the coarse-grained approximation to the black hole density of states can be computed using classical Euclidean gravity. In this work we argue for another entry in the dictionary between Euclidean gravity and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

Eternal asymptotically AdS black holes are dual to thermofield double states in the boundary CFT. It has long been known that black hole singularities have certain signatures in boundary thermal two-point functions related to null geodesics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 Nejc Čeplak , Hong Liu , Andrei Parnachev , Samuel Valach

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We further develop the description of three-dimensional quantum gravity with negative cosmological constant in terms of Virasoro TQFT formulated in our previous paper arXiv:2304.13650. We compare the partition functions computed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-20 Scott Collier , Lorenz Eberhardt , Mengyang Zhang

We describe a one-parameter family of Euclidean wormhole solutions with the topology of a compact hyperbolic space times an interval in Einstein gravity minimally coupled to a massless scalar field in AdS$_{d+1}$ commonly referred to as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Jeevan Chandra

We reconsider the role of wormholes in the AdS/CFT correspondence. We focus on Euclidean wormholes that connect two asymptotically AdS or hyperbolic regions with $\mathbb{S}^1\times \mathbb{S}^{d-1}$ boundary. There is no solution to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Jordan Cotler , Kristan Jensen

The path integral of pure 3D gravity with negative cosmological constant is formulated on a finite region of spacetime $M$, with boundary conditions that fix geodesic lengths or dihedral angles on $\partial M$. In the dual CFT, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-18 Thomas Hartman

We obtain an asymptotic formula for the average value of the operator product expansion coefficients of any unitary, compact two dimensional CFT with $c>1$. This formula is valid when one or more of the operators has large dimension or --…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Ioannis Tsiares

The isomorphism between the (extended) BMS$_4$ algebra and the $1+2$D Carrollian conformal algebra hints towards a co-dimension one formalism of flat holography with the field theory residing on the null-boundary of the asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Amartya Saha

For a generic quantum many-body system, the quantum ergodic regime is defined as the limit in which the spectrum of the system resembles that of a random matrix theory (RMT) in the corresponding symmetry class. In this paper we analyse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets , Pranjal Nayak , Julian Sonner , Manuel Vielma

We solve crossing equations analytically in the deep Euclidean regime. Large scaling dimension $\Delta$ tails of the weighted spectral density of primary operators of given spin in one channel are matched to the Euclidean OPE data in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Baur Mukhametzhanov , Alexander Zhiboedov