The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications

D Poland, S Rychkov, A Vichi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics
of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids …

Interactions in higher-spin gravity: a holographic perspective

C Sleight - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review is an elaboration of recent results on the holographic re-construction of metric-
like interactions in higher-spin gauge theories on anti-de Sitter space (AdS), employing their …

Higher-point conformal blocks in the comb channel

JF Fortin, WJ Ma, W Skiba - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We compute M-point conformal blocks with scalar external and exchange
operators in the so-called comb configuration for any M in any dimension d. Our computation …

Six-point conformal blocks in the snowflake channel

JF Fortin, WJ Ma, W Skiba - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We compute d-dimensional scalar six-point conformal blocks in the two possible
topologies allowed by the operator product expansion. Our computation is a simple …

Seven-point conformal blocks in the extended snowflake channel and beyond

JF Fortin, WJ Ma, W Skiba - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
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 …

Geodesic diagrams, gravitational interactions & OPE structures

A Castro, E Llabrés, F Rejon-Barrera - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We give a systematic procedure to evaluate conformal partial waves involving
symmetric tensors for an arbitrary CFT d using geodesic Witten diagrams in AdS d+ 1. Using …

Witten diagrams for torus conformal blocks

P Kraus, A Maloney, H Maxfield, GS Ng… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We give a holographic description of global conformal blocks in two dimensional
conformal field theory on the sphere and on the torus. We show that the conformal blocks for …

Geodesic bulk diagrams on the Bruhat–Tits tree

SS Gubser, S Parikh - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Geodesic bulk diagrams were recently shown to be the geometric objects which compute
global conformal blocks. We show that this duality continues to hold in p-adic AdS/CFT …

[HTML][HTML] Towards spinning Mellin amplitudes

HY Chen, EJ Kuo, H Kyono - Nuclear Physics B, 2018 - Elsevier
We construct the Mellin representation of four point conformal correlation function with
external primary operators with arbitrary integer spacetime spins, and obtain a natural …

Conformal correlators and blocks with spinors in general dimensions

H Isono - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
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 …