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Light-cone formulation of conformal field theory in space-time of arbitrary dimension is developed. Conformal fundamental and shadow fields with arbitrary conformal dimension and arbitrary spin are studied. Representation of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Metsaev

We consider the Carrollian conformal field theories involving scalar operators in the momentum representation. The momentum space Ward identities are explicitly solved to obtain the different branches of 2 and 3 point Carrollian conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Raffaele Marotta , Arvind Shekar , Mritunjay Verma

A mathematical construction of the conformal field theory (CFT) associated to a compact torus, also called the "nonlinear Sigma-model" or "lattice-CFT", is given. Underlying this approach to CFT is a unitary modular functor, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Hessel Posthuma

We study four-point correlation functions with logarithmic behaviour in Liouville field theory on a sphere, which consist of one kind of the local operators. We study them as non-integrated correlation functions of the gravitational sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shun-ichi Yamaguchi

Two sets of spatially diffeomorphism invariant operators are constructed in the loop representation formulation of quantum gravity. This is done by coupling general relativity to an anti- symmetric tensor gauge field and using that field to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Lee Smolin

The decomposition of correlation functions into conformal blocks is an indispensable tool in conformal field theory. For spinning correlators, non-trivial tensor structures are needed to mediate between the conformal blocks, which are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Ilija Buric , Mikhail Isachenkov , Volker Schomerus

We study the correlation function between one single-trace scalar operator and a circular Wilson loop in the $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory with gauge group $SU(N)$ and matter transforming in the symmetric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-19 Alessandro Pini , Paolo Vallarino

Correlation functions in Euclidean conformal field theories in four dimensions are expressed as representations of the conformal group $SL(2,\H)$, $\H$ being the field of quaternions, on the configuration space of points. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Aritra Pal , Koushik Ray

We consider conformal field theories around points of large twist degeneracy. Examples of this are theories with weakly broken higher spin symmetry and perturbations around generalised free fields. At the degenerate point we introduce twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Luis F. Alday

We construct symmetry generators and operators for $J\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories by generalizing the framework established for $T\bar{T}$ deformations. Working in the Hamiltonian formalism on the plane, we derive the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Liangyu Chen , Zhengyuan Du , Wei Song

We construct loop operators in two dimensional Toda CFT and calculate with them the exact expectation value of certain supersymmetric 't Hooft and dyonic loop operators in four dimensional \Ncal=2 gauge theories with SU(N) gauge group.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-04 Jaume Gomis , Bruno Le Floch

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) on manifolds with a boundary. We can use conformal symmetry to constrain correlation functions of conformal invariant fields. We compute two-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

We classify bosonic $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ supersymmetric Wilson loops on arbitrary backgrounds with vector-like R-symmetry. These can be defined on any smooth contour and come in two forms which are universal across all backgrounds. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-31 Rodolfo Panerai , Matteo Poggi , Domenico Seminara

This paper completes the construction of arbitrary order conformally invariant differential operators in higher spin spaces. Jan Slov\'{a}k has classified all conformally invariant differential operators on locally conformally flat…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Chao Ding , Raymond Walter , John Ryan

The partition function of a family of four dimensional N=2 gauge theories has been recently related to correlation functions of two dimensional conformal Toda field theories. For SU(2) gauge theories, the associated two dimensional theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-30 Filippo Passerini

We apply numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to the four-point function of a Weyl spinor in 4d non-supersymmetric CFTs. We find universal bounds on operator dimensions and OPE coefficients, including bounds on operators in mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Marco Serone , Alessandro Vichi

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 this article we compute the action of the two loop dilatation operator on restricted Schur polynomials that belong to the su(2) sector, in the displaced corners approximation. In this non-planar large N limit, operators that diagonalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Robert de Mello Koch , Garreth Kemp , Badr Awad Elseid Mohammed , Stephanie Smith

In two dimensional conformal field theories the limit of large central charge plays the role of a semi-classical limit. Certain universal observables, such as conformal blocks involving the exchange of the identity operator, can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya

Rapid progress has been made recently on symmetry breaking operators for real reductive groups. Based on Program A-C for branching problems (T.Kobayashi [Progr.Math.2015]), we illustrate a scheme of the classification of (local and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Toshiyuki Kobayashi