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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 354 1 a Solution by
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Four distinct points in a conformal field theory with possess two independent conformal cross-ratios, conventionallyTranslations, rotations, dilations, and special conformal transformations can map three points to canonical positions , a point on one chosen axis, and the point at infinity in a conformal completion. The fourth point retains one radial coordinate and one angle relative to that axis. Those two quantities are equivalent to and ; the stabilizer rotations remove all its remaining angular coordinates.
For identical scalar primary operators of dimension , conformal covariance fixes a kinematic prefactor and leaves an arbitrary function :for one common convention. Since a generic conformal field theory has unrestricted dynamical dependence on both cross-ratios, no lower-dimensional set determines the function. Therefore
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