Conformal partial waves in momentum space
Abstract
The decomposition of 4-point correlation functions into conformal partial waves is a central tool in the study of conformal field theory. We compute these partial waves for scalar operators in Minkowski momentum space, and find a closed-form result valid in arbitrary space-time dimension $d \geq 3$ (including non-integer $d$). Each conformal partial wave is expressed as a sum over ordinary spin partial waves, and the coefficients of this sum factorize into a product of vertex functions that only depend on the conformal data of the incoming, respectively outgoing operators. As a simple example, we apply this conformal partial wave decomposition to the scalar box integral in $d = 4$ dimensions.
- Publication:
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SciPost Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2021
- DOI:
- 10.21468/SciPostPhys.10.4.081
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2012.09825
- Bibcode:
- 2021ScPP...10...81G
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 39 pages, 3 figures. v2: typos corrected and references added