Thermal CFTs in momentum space

Autor: Andrea Manenti
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2020, Iss 1, Pp 1-26 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2020)009
Popis: Abstract We study some aspects of conformal field theories at finite temperature in momentum space. We provide a formula for the Fourier transform of a thermal conformal block and study its analytic properties. In particular we show that the Fourier transform vanishes when the conformal dimension and spin are those of a “double twist” operator ∆ = 2∆ ϕ + ℓ + 2n. By analytically continuing to Lorentzian signature we show that the spectral density at high spatial momenta has support on the spectrum condition |ω| > |k|. This leads to a series of sum rules. Finally, we explicitly match the thermal block expansion with the momentum space Green’s function at finite temperature in several examples.
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