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Hauptverfasser: Carmi, Dean, Moreno, Javier, Sukholuski, Shimon
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08774
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author Carmi, Dean
Moreno, Javier
Sukholuski, Shimon
author_facet Carmi, Dean
Moreno, Javier
Sukholuski, Shimon
contents Dispersion relations are nonperturbative formulas that relate the ultraviolet and infrared behavior of an observable with wide-ranging applications applications in linear response theory, quantum field theory scattering amplitudes, and conformal correlators. We derive a position-space dispersion relation for scalar four-point mixed correlation functions in an arbitrary conformal field theory. This formula expresses the correlator in terms of its integrated double discontinuity times a kinematic kernel. The kernel is analytically computed, and expressed in a remarkably simple form as a two-variable Appell function. The dispersion kernel is found by solving a coupled partial differential equation that the kernel obeys. Numerical checks of the dispersion relation are successfully performed for generalized free field correlators. Finally, we show that our position-space dispersion relation is equivalent to a Cauchy-type dispersion relation of the Mellin amplitude of the correlator.
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spellingShingle Conformal dispersion relation for mixed correlators
Carmi, Dean
Moreno, Javier
Sukholuski, Shimon
High Energy Physics - Theory
Dispersion relations are nonperturbative formulas that relate the ultraviolet and infrared behavior of an observable with wide-ranging applications applications in linear response theory, quantum field theory scattering amplitudes, and conformal correlators. We derive a position-space dispersion relation for scalar four-point mixed correlation functions in an arbitrary conformal field theory. This formula expresses the correlator in terms of its integrated double discontinuity times a kinematic kernel. The kernel is analytically computed, and expressed in a remarkably simple form as a two-variable Appell function. The dispersion kernel is found by solving a coupled partial differential equation that the kernel obeys. Numerical checks of the dispersion relation are successfully performed for generalized free field correlators. Finally, we show that our position-space dispersion relation is equivalent to a Cauchy-type dispersion relation of the Mellin amplitude of the correlator.
title Conformal dispersion relation for mixed correlators
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08774