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The n-point functions of any Conformal Field Theory (CFT) in $d$ dimensions can always be interpreted as spatial restrictions of corresponding functions in a higher-dimensional CFT with dimension $d'> d$. In particular, when a four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Ferdinando Gliozzi

The correlators of free four dimensional conformal field theories (CFT4) have been shown to be given by amplitudes in two-dimensional $so(4,2)$ equivariant topological field theories (TFT2), by using a vertex operator formalism for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

We show how conformal partial waves (or conformal blocks) of spinor/tensor correlators can be related to each other by means of differential operators in four dimensional conformal field theories. We explicitly construct such differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-26 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Emtinan Elkhidir , Denis Karateev , Marco Serone

In conformal field theory (CFT), the four-point correlator is a fundamental object that encodes CFT properties, constrains CFT structures, and connects to the gravitational scattering amplitude in holography theory. However, the four-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chao Han , Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

Various relations between conformal quantum field theories in one, two and four dimensions are explored. The intention is to obtain a better understanding of 4D CFT with the help of methods from lower dimensional CFT.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Marcel Bischoff , Daniel Meise , Karl-Henning Rehren , Ingo Wagner

Applying the Casimir operator to four-point functions in CFTs allows us to find the conformal blocks for any external operators. In this work, we initiate the program to find the superconformal blocks, using the super Casimir operator, for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Israel A. Ramírez

We apply an integral transformation to solutions of a partial differential equation for five-point correlation functions in Liouville theory on a sphere with one degenerate field $V_{-\frac{1}{2b}}$. By repeating this transformation, we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 André Neveu

We uncover a striking connection between conformal blocks and fractional calculus. By employing a modified form of half-derivates, we derived explicitly the exact form of the three-dimensional conformal block, expressed as the product of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 Chaoming Song

We continue the exploration of multipoint scalar comb channel blocks for conformal field theories in 3D and 4D. The central goal here is to construct novel comb channel cross ratios that are well adapted to perform projections onto all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Ilija Buric , Sylvain Lacroix , Jeremy A. Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus

We revisit the construction of the 2d conformal blocks of primary operator four-point functions as bilocal vertex operator correlators. We find an additional interpretation as a path integral over the reparametrizations of an intermediate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-20 Gideon Vos

Extending previous work on 2 -- and 3 -- point functions, we study the 4 -- point function and its conformal block structure in conformal quantum mechanics CFT$_1$, which realizes the SO(2,1) symmetry group. Conformal covariance is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 R. Jackiw , S. -Y. Pi

Extended objects such as line or surface operators, interfaces or boundaries play an important role in conformal field theory. Here we propose a systematic approach to the relevant conformal blocks which are argued to coincide with the wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Mikhail Isachenkov , Pedro Liendo , Yannick Linke , Volker Schomerus

Seven-point functions have two inequivalent topologies or channels. The comb channel has been computed previously and here we compute scalar conformal blocks in the extended snowflake channel in $d$ dimensions. Our computation relies on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Witold Skiba

We extend the work of [4] to support the conjecture that any conformal field theory with a large N expansion and a large gap in the spectrum of anomalous dimensions has a local bulk dual. We count to O(1/N^2) the solutions to the crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Idse Heemskerk , James Sully

Families of conformal field theories are naturally endowed with a Riemannian geometry which is locally encoded by correlation functions of exactly marginal operators. We show that the curvature of such conformal manifolds can be computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Bruno Balthazar , Clay Cordova

We describe a prescription for constructing conformal blocks in conformal field theories in any space-time dimension with arbitrary quantum numbers. Our procedure reduces the calculation of conformal blocks to constructing certain group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

We define the two-dimensional $O(n)$ conformal field theory as a theory that includes the critical dilute and dense $O(n)$ models as special cases, and depends analytically on the central charge. For generic values of $n\in\mathbb{C}$, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Linnea Grans-Samuelsson , Rongvoram Nivesvivat , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Sylvain Ribault , Hubert Saleur

We study the momentum-space 4-point correlation function of identical scalar operators in conformal field theory. Working specifically with null momenta, we show that its imaginary part admits an expansion in conformal blocks. The blocks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-29 Marc Gillioz

We study conformal blocks for thermal one-point-functions on the sphere in conformal field theories of general dimension. These thermal conformal blocks satisfy second order Casimir differential equations and have integral representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-07 Yan Gobeil , Alexander Maloney , Gim Seng Ng , Jie-qiang Wu

We provide a framework for generic 4D conformal bootstrap computations. It is based on the unification of two independent approaches, the covariant (embedding) formalism and the non-covariant (conformal frame) formalism. We construct their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-17 Gabriel Francisco Cuomo , Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk