Light cone OPE in a CFT with lowest twist scalar primary

Abstract

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of two identical scalar primary operators in the lightcone limit in a conformal field theory where a scalar is the operator with lowest twist. We see that in CFTs where both the stress tensor and a scalar are the lowest twist operators, the stress tensor contributes at the leading order in the lightcone OPE and the scalar contributes at the subleading order. We also see that there does not exist a scalar analogue of the average null energy condition (ANEC) for a CFT where a scalar is the lowest twist operator.

arXiv comment13+1 pages, 3 figures, significantly modified, main result and proof are unchanged, published in Physical Review D

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