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We show that a class of $L$-loop conformal ladder graphs correspond to twisted partition functions of free massive complex scalars in $d=2L+1$ dimensions. The graphs arise as four-point functions in certain two- and four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-10 Manthos Karydas , Songyuan Li , Anastasios C. Petkou , Matthieu Vilatte

In the paper, the family of conformal four-point ladder diagrams in arbitrary space-time dimensions is considered. We use the representation obtained via explicit calculation using the operator approach and conformal quantum mechanics to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 S. E. Derkachov , A. P. Isaev , L. A. Shumilov

We define and compute the four-dimensional thermal $n$-point conformal block in the projection channel using oscillator representations on $\mathbb{S}^1_\beta \times \mathbb{S}^3$. This is done by evaluating a class of integrals over the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

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

I point out that the thermal one-point functions of a pair of relevant operators in massive free QFTs, in odd dimensions and in the presence of an imaginary chemical potential for a U(1) global charge, are given by certain classes of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Anastasios C. Petkou

The explicit computation of higher-point conformal blocks in any dimension is usually a challenging task. For two-dimensional conformal field theories in Euclidean signature, the oscillator formalism proves to be very efficient. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Martin Ammon , Jakob Hollweck , Tobias Hössel , Katharina Wölfl

In this paper we study one-dimensional conformal field theory at finite temperature dual to the two-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime in the Rindler coordinates. We show that conformal symmetry for thermal two-point functions manifests…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Satoshi Ohya

In this work we address partial wave decompositions of thermal one-point functions in conformal field theories on $S^1 \times S^{d-1}$. With the help of Casimir differential equations we develop efficient algorithms to compute the relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-07 Ilija Buric , Francesco Russo , Volker Schomerus , Alessandro Vichi

We develop the thermal shadow formalism to study the conformal blocks decomposition in $D$-dimensional conformal field theory on $\mathbb{S}_{\beta}^{1} \times \mathbb{S}^{D-1}$, where the temperature is $T = \beta^{-1}$. It is demonstrated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-01 K. B. Alkalaev , Semyon Mandrygin

We initiate an approach to constraining conformal field theory (CFT) data at finite temperature using methods inspired by the conformal bootstrap for vacuum correlation functions. We focus on thermal one- and two-point functions of local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Luca Iliesiu , Murat Koloğlu , Raghu Mahajan , Eric Perlmutter , David Simmons-Duffin

We evaluate one-loop partition functions of higher-spin fields in thermal flat space with angular potentials; this computation is performed in arbitrary space-time dimension, and the result is a simple combination of Poincar\'e characters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Andrea Campoleoni , Hernan A. Gonzalez , Blagoje Oblak , Max Riegler

We evaluate the 1-loop partition function of conformal gravity in four dimensions around an $AdS_4$ background, using the heat kernel techniques. We give expressions for the relevant thermodynamical quantities and compare our results with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Irakleidou , I. Lovrekovic

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 conformal four-point Feynman integrals to investigate how much of their mathematical structure in two spacetime dimensions carries over to higher dimensions. In particular, we discuss recursions in the loop order and spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Florian Loebbert , Sven F. Stawinski

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

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

We establish a correspondence between conformal partial waves on flat, thermal, and defect backgrounds using the shadow formalism. We demonstrate that scalar one-point thermal blocks can be systematically obtained from their four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 K. B. Alkalaev , Semyon Mandrygin , Vladimir Samsonov

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

In this note we study the possible connection between functions appearing in diagrammatic expansion and the conformal correlator expansion. To study the connection we propose a generating function which can be expanded to construct a basis.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Sunny Guha , Kallol Sen

The path-integral quantization of thermal scalar, vector and spinor fields is performed newly in the coherent-state representation. In doing this, we choose the thermal electrodynamics and $\phi ^4$ theory as examples. By this quantization,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Chen Su , Fu-Hou Zheng
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