Higher-Point Conformal Blocks

La théorie conforme des champs (en anglais, CFT) joue un rôle central dans la physique théorique moderne. L’étude des CFT débouche sur une compréhension profonde de la théorie des cordes et de la physique de la matière condensée. Dans une CFT, les fonctions de corrélation sont des ingrédients essentiels pour le calcul des observables physiques. En raison de l’existence du développement en produit d’opérateurs (OPE), les fonctions de corrélation conformes peuvent être séparées en parties dynamiques, qui constituent les coefficients de l’OPE ainsi que les dimensions conformes, et en parties cinématiques, appelées les blocs conformes, qui sont complètement fixées par la symétrie conforme. Depuis que le bootstrap conforme a été ravivé en 2008, plusieurs techniques ont été développées pour calculer les blocs conformes à quatre points au cours de la dernière décennie. Contrairement aux blocs à quatre points, les blocs conformes à plus de quatre points, qui sont notoirement difficiles à calculer, n’ont pas encore été étudiés en détail, bien que ces derniers soient utiles pour la mise en œuvre du bootstrap conforme à plusieurs points, tout comme pour l’étude des diagrammes de Witten dans l’espace AdS. Dans cette thèse, en utilisant l’OPE de l’espace de plongement, nous obtenons des expressions pour les blocs conformes scalaires à M points avec des échanges scalaires dans la configuration en peigne, et pour les ceux qui ont six et sept points avec des échanges scalaires dans les configurations en flocon de neige et en flocon de neige étendu. De plus, nous proposons un ensemble de règles de type Feynman pour écrire directement une forme explicite pour tout bloc conforme global en une et deux dimensions. En nous basant sur l’OPE de l’espace de position, nous prouvons les règles de type Feynman par construction. Enfin, après avoir discuté des propriétés de symétrie des blocs conformes, nous développons une méthode systématique pour écrire les équations du bootstrap pour les fonctions de corrélation à plusieurs points.Conformal field theories (CFTs) play a central role in modern theoretical physics. The study of CFTs leads to a deep understanding of both string theory and condensed matter physics. In a CFT, correlation functions are essential ingredients for the computation of physical observables. Due to the existence of the operator product expansion (OPE), conformal correlation functions can be separated into their dynamical parts, which constitute of the OPE coefficients as well as the conformal dimensions, and their kinematic parts, dubbed the conformal blocks, which are completely fixed by conformal symmetry. Since the conformal bootstrap was revived in 2008, several techniques have been developed to compute the four-point conformal blocks during the last decade. In contrast to the four-point blocks, conformal blocks with more than four points, which are notoriously difficult to compute, have not been studied in great detail, although these higher-point conformal blocks are useful for the implementation of higher-point conformal bootstrap as well as the study of AdS Witten diagrams. In this thesis, by using the embedding space OPE, we obtain expressions for the scalar M-point conformal blocks with scalar exchanges in the comb configuration as well as scalar six-and seven-point conformal blocks with scalar exchanges in the snowflake and extended snowflake configurations. Moreover, we propose a set of Feynman-like rules to directly write down an explicit form for any global conformal block in one and two dimensions. Based on the position space OPE, we prove the Feynman-like rules by construction. Finally, after discussing the symmetry properties of the conformal blocks, we develop a systematical way to write down the bootstrap equations for higher-point correlation functions

Massive celestial amplitudes and celestial amplitudes beyond four points

We compute scalar three-point celestial amplitudes involving two and three massive scalars. The three-point coefficient of celestial amplitudes with two massive scalars contains a hypergeometric function, and the one with three massive scalars can be represented as a triple Mellin-Barnes integral. Using these three-point celestial amplitudes, we investigate the conformal block expansions of five- and six-point scalar celestial amplitudes in the comb channel. We observe the presence of two-particle operators in the conformal block expansion of five-point celestial amplitudes, which confirms the previous analysis by taking multi-collinear limit. Moreover, we find that there are new three-particle operators in the conformal block expansion of six-point celestial amplitudes. Based on these findings, we conjecture that exchanges of $n$-particle operators can be observed by considering the comb channel conformal block expansion of $(n+3)$-point massless celestial amplitudes. Finally, we show that a new series of operators appears when turning on the mass of the first incoming particle. The leading operator in this series can be interpreted as a two-particle exchange in the OPE of one massive and one massless scalars.Comment: 39 page

Missing Corner in the Sky: Massless Three-Point Celestial Amplitudes

We study three-point celestial amplitudes in Minkowski space for massless scalars, photons, gluons, and gravitons. The corresponding scattering amplitudes in the plane wave basis vanish for generic momenta due to momentum conservation. However, the delta function for the momentum conservation has support in the soft and colinear regions, and contributes to the Mellin and shadow integrals that give non-zero celestial amplitudes. We show that the amplitudes with the incoming (outgoing) particles in the (shadow) conformal basis take the standard form of correlators in two-dimensional conformal field theory. In particular, the three-point celestial gluon amplitudes take the form of a three-point function of a spin-one current with two spin-one primary operators, which strongly supports the relation between soft spinning particles and conserved currents. Moreover, the three-point celestial amplitudes of one graviton and two massless scalars take the form of a correlation function involving a primary operator of conformal weight one and spin two, whose level-one descendent is the supertranslation current

Position Analysis of a Hybrid Serial-Parallel Manipulator in Immersion Lithography

This paper proposes a novel hybrid serial-parallel mechanism with 6 degrees of freedom. The new mechanism combines two different parallel modules in a serial form. 3-P̲(PH) parallel module is architecture of 3 degrees of freedom based on higher joints and specializes in describing two planes’ relative pose. 3-P̲SP parallel module is typical architecture which has been widely investigated in recent researches. In this paper, the direct-inverse position problems of the 3-P̲SP parallel module in the couple mixed-type mode are analyzed in detail, and the solutions are obtained in an analytical form. Furthermore, the solutions for the direct and inverse position problems of the novel hybrid serial-parallel mechanism are also derived and obtained in the analytical form. The proposed hybrid serial-parallel mechanism is applied to regulate the immersion hood’s pose in an immersion lithography system. Through measuring and regulating the pose of the immersion hood with respect to the wafer surface simultaneously, the immersion hood can track the wafer surface’s pose in real-time and the gap status is stabilized. This is another exploration to hybrid serial-parallel mechanism’s application

Split representation in celestial holography

We develop a split representation for celestial amplitudes in celestial holography, by cutting internal lines of Feynman diagrams in Minkowski space. More explicitly, the bulk-to-bulk propagators associated with the internal lines are expressed as a product of two boundary-to-bulk propagators with a coinciding boundary point integrated over the celestial sphere. Applying this split representation, we compute the conformal partial wave and conformal block expansions of celestial four-point functions of massless scalars and photons on the Euclidean celestial sphere. In the $t$-channel massless scalar amplitude, we observe novel intermediate exchanges of staggered modules in the conformal block expansion.Comment: 76 page

Comprehensive analysis of ceRNA network composed of circRNA, miRNA, and mRNA in septic acute kidney injury patients based on RNA-seq

Background: Sepsis is a complex, life-threatening clinical syndrome that can cause other related diseases, such as acute kidney injury (AKI). Circular RNA (circRNA) is a type of non-coding RNA with a diverse range of functions, and it plays essential roles in miRNA sponge. CircRNA plays a huge part in the development of various diseases. CircRNA and the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) regulatory network are unknown factors in the onset and progression of septic AKI (SAKI). This study aimed to clarify the complex circRNA-associated regulatory mechanism of circRNAs in SAKI.Methods: We collected 40 samples of whole blood of adults, including 20 cases of SAKI and 20 cases of healthy controls. Moreover, five cases were each analyzed by RNA sequencing, and we identified differentially expressed circRNA, miRNA, and mRNA (DEcircRNAs, DEmiRNAs, and DEmRNAs, respectively). All samples were from SAKI patients with intraperitoneal infection.Results: As a result, we screened out 236 DEcircRNAs, 105 DEmiRNAs, and 4065 DEmRNAs. Then, we constructed two co-expression networks based on RNA–RNA interaction, including circRNA–miRNA and miRNA–mRNA co-expression networks. We finally created a circRNA–miRNA–mRNA regulation network by combining the two co-expression networks. Functional and pathway analyses indicated that DEmRNAs in ceRNA were mostly concentrated in T cell activation, neutrophils and their responses, and cytokines. The protein–protein interaction network was established to screen out the key genes participating in the regulatory network of SAKI. The hub genes identified as the top 10 nodes included the following: ZNF727, MDFIC, IFITM2, FOXD4L6, CIITA, KCNE1B, BAGE2, PPIAL4A, USP17L7, and PRSS2.Conclusion: To our knowledge, this research is the first study to describe changes in the expression profiles of circRNAs, miRNAs, and mRNAs in patients with SAKI. These findings provide a new treatment target for SAKI treatment and novel ideas for its pathogenesis