PKU HEP Seminar and Workshop (北京大学高能物理组)
An Analytic Approach to CFTs in General Spacetime Dimension
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Asia/Shanghai
B105 (CHEP)
B105
CHEP
West Building, School of Physics, PKU
Description
In this talk, I introduce an analytic approach to the four-point crossing equation in CFT, for general spacetime dimension. In a unitary CFT, the crossing equation 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 of functions, consisting of double-twist conformal blocks in mean field theory (and their derivatives with respect to the conformal dimension), in both s- and t-channels. The dual basis is the linear functionals, and I will outline two independent methods to construct them. I will also explain the relation of this work with other analytic approaches, such as the CFT dispersion relation and the Polyakov-Mellin bootstrap.