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Bootstrap experiments on higher dimensional CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-04 v1

Abstract

Recent programs on conformal bootstrap suggest an empirical relationship between the existence of non-trivial conformal field theories and non-trivial features such as a kink in the unitarity bound of conformal dimensions in the conformal bootstrap equations. We report the existene of non-trivial kinks in the unitarity bound of scalar operators in the adjoint representation of the SU(N)SU(N) symmetric conformal field theories. They have interesting properties (1) the kinks exist in d<6d<6 dimensions (2) the location of kinks are when the unitarity bound hits the space-time dimension dd (3) there exists a "conformal window" of N<NN<N_*, where N15N_* \sim 15 in d=4d=4 and N20N_* \sim 20 in d=5d=5.

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@article{arxiv.1705.02744,
  title  = {Bootstrap experiments on higher dimensional CFTs},
  author = {Yu Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.02744},
  year   = {2018}
}

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22 pages, 20 figures

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