Virasoro conformal blocks in closed form

Perlmutter, Eric

doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2015)088

Title: Virasoro conformal blocks in closed form

Journal Article · Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2015)088· OSTI ID:1600692

Perlmutter, Eric ^[1]

Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

Virasoro conformal blocks are fixed in principle by symmetry, but a closed-form expression is unknown in the general case. In this work, we provide three closed-form expansions for the four-point Virasoro blocks on the sphere, for arbitrary operator dimensions and central charge c. We do so by solving known recursion relations. One representation is a sum over hypergeometric global blocks, whose coefficients we provide at arbitrary level. Another is a sum over semiclassical Virasoro blocks obtained in the limit in which two external operator dimensions scale linearly with large c. In both cases, the 1/c expansion of the Virasoro blocks is easily extracted. We discuss applications of these expansions to entanglement and thermality in conformal field theories and particle scattering in three-dimensional quantum gravity.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0007968; FG02-91ER40671

OSTI ID:: 1600692

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2015, Issue 8; ISSN 1029-8479

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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