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Journal Article
A Mellin space approach to the conformal bootstrap
2017
Overview
A
bstract
We describe in more detail our approach to the conformal bootstrap which uses the Mellin representation of
CFT
d
four point functions and expands them in terms of crossing symmetric combinations of
AdS
d
+1
Witten exchange functions. We consider arbitrary external scalar operators and set up the conditions for consistency with the operator product expansion. Namely, we demand cancellation of spurious powers (of the cross ratios, in position space) which translate into spurious poles in Mellin space. We discuss two contexts in which we can immediately apply this method by imposing the simplest set of constraint equations. The first is the epsilon expansion. We mostly focus on the Wilson-Fisher fixed point as studied in an epsilon expansion about
d
= 4. We reproduce Feynman diagram results for operator dimensions to
O
(
ϵ
3
) rather straightforwardly. This approach also yields new analytic predictions for OPE coefficients to the same order which fit nicely with recent numerical estimates for the Ising model (at
ϵ
= 1). We will also mention some leading order results for scalar theories near three and six dimensions. The second context is a large spin expansion, in any dimension, where we are able to reproduce and go a bit beyond some of the results recently obtained using the (double) light cone expansion. We also have a preliminary discussion about numerical implementation of the above bootstrap scheme in the absence of a small parameter.
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V,SpringerOpen
