5 papers
Polarization Formalism for Photon-Gravitational Wave Mixing Around Magnetars
Jean-Simon Côté, Jean-François Fortin
The Gertsenshtein effect can be used to probe the stochastic gravitational wave background at high frequencies, well above the range of standard cosmological sources. In this paper…
The Virasoro Completeness Relation and Inverse Shapovalov Form
Jean-François Fortin, Lorenzo Quintavalle, Witold Skiba
In this work, we introduce an explicit expression for the inverse of the symmetric bilinear form of Virasoro Verma modules, the so-called Shapovalov form, in terms of singular vect…
One- and two-dimensional higher-point conformal blocks as free-particle wavefunctions in AdS
Jean-François Fortin, Wen-Jie Ma, Sarthak Parikh +2
We establish that all of the one- and two-dimensional global conformal blocks are, up to some choice of prefactor, free-particle wavefunctions in tensor products of AdS or limi…
Conformal Bootstrap Equations from the Embedding Space Operator Product Expansion
Jean-François Fortin, Wen-Jie Ma, Valentina Prilepina +1
We describe how to implement the conformal bootstrap program in the context of the embedding space OPE formalism introduced in previous work. To take maximal advantage of the known…
A recipe for conformal blocks
Jean-François Fortin, Witold Skiba
We describe a prescription for constructing conformal blocks in conformal field theories in any space-time dimension with arbitrary quantum numbers. Our procedure reduces the calcu…