# Analyticity in spin in conformal theories

@article{CaronHuot2017AnalyticityIS,
title={Analyticity in spin in conformal theories},
author={S. Caron-Huot},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2017},
volume={2017},
pages={1-44}
}
A bstractConformal theory correlators are characterized by the spectrum and three-point functions of local operators. We present a formula which extracts this data as an analytic function of spin. In analogy with a classic formula due to Froissart and Gribov, it is sensitive only to an “imaginary part” which appears after analytic continuation to Lorentzian signature, and it converges thanks to recent bounds on the high-energy Regge limit. At large spin, substituting in cross-channel data, the… Expand
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