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Spinning conformal blocks

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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 11, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2011)154

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AdS-CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Models in String Theory; Space-Time Symmetries

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  1. FCT
  2. European Program Unification in the LHC Era [PITN-GA-2009-237920]
  3. Harvard Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
  4. NSF [PHY-0556111]
  5. Government of Canada through NSERC
  6. Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research Innovation
  7. [PTDC/FIS/099293/2008]
  8. [CERN/FP/109306/2009]
  9. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [CERN/FP/109306/2009] Funding Source: FCT

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For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the embedding space formalism, we show that one can express all such conformal blocks in terms of simple differential operators acting on the basic scalar conformal blocks. This method gives all conformal blocks for conformal field theories in three dimensions. We demonstrate how this formalism can be applied in a few simple examples.

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