The authors show that the infinity twistor must be added to twistor-space invariants to describe general primary operators in 3D CFTs, and they derive the corresponding Penrose, Witten, and super-Penrose transforms.
Double copy structure and the flat space limit of conformal correlators in even dimensions
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We analyse the flat space limit of 3-point correlators in momentum space for general conformal field theories in even spacetime dimensions, and show they exhibit a double copy structure similar to that found in odd dimensions. In even dimensions, the situation is more complicated because correlators contain branch cuts and divergences which need to be renormalised. We describe the analytic continuation of momenta required to extract the flat space limit, and show that the flat space limit is encoded in the leading singularity of a 1-loop triangle integral which serves as a master integral for 3-point correlators in even dimensions. We then give a detailed analysis of the renormalised correlators in four dimensions where the flat space limit of stress tensor correlators are controlled by the coefficients in the trace anomaly.
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An Ode to the Penrose and Witten transforms in Twistor space for 3D CFT
The authors show that the infinity twistor must be added to twistor-space invariants to describe general primary operators in 3D CFTs, and they derive the corresponding Penrose, Witten, and super-Penrose transforms.