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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP08(2021)140
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Conformal Field Theory; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Conformal and W Symmetry
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- Simons Foundation [488653]
- NSF [PHY1620628]
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An analytic approach to the four-point crossing equation in CFT is developed for general spacetime dimension. The study identifies a useful basis for complex analytic functions in two variables, related to double-twist operators in mean field theory. The basis of functionals appears to be closely related to the CFT dispersion relation recently derived by Carmi and Caron-Huot.
We develop an analytic approach to the four-point crossing equation in CFT, for general spacetime dimension. In a unitary CFT, the crossing equation (for, say, the s- and t-channel expansions) can be thought of as a vector equation in an infinite-dimensional space of complex analytic functions in two variables, which satisfy a boundedness condition at infinity. We identify a useful basis for this space of functions, consisting of the set of s- and t-channel conformal blocks of double-twist operators in mean field theory. We describe two independent algorithms to construct the dual basis of linear functionals, and work out explicitly many examples. Our basis of functionals appears to be closely related to the CFT dispersion relation recently derived by Carmi and Caron-Huot.
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