Many CFT problems, e.g. ones with global symmetries, have correlation functions with a crossing antisymmetric sector. We show that such a crossing antisymmetric function can be expanded in terms of manifestly crossing antisymmetric objects, which we call the ‘+ type Polyakov blocks’. These blocks are built from AdSd+1Witten diagrams. In 1d they encode the ‘+ type’ analytic functionals which act on crossing antisymmetric functions. In generaldwe establish this Witten diagram basis from a crossing antisymmetric dispersion relation in Mellin space. Analogous to the crossing symmetric case, the dispersion relation imposes a set of independent ‘locality constraints’ in addition to the usual CFT sum rules given by the ‘Polyakov conditions’. We use the Polyakov blocks to simplify more general analytic functionals ind >1 and global symmetry functionals.
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