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Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them to bootstrap these correlators in the lightcone limit. As a result we determine the large spin expansion of OPE coefficients involving two or three spinning operators. We verify our results by comparing to the block decomposition of higher-point functions in generalized free theory and in theories with a cubic coupling.
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Antunes, A., Costa, M.S., Gonçalves, V. et al. Lightcone bootstrap at higher points. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 139 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2022)139
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