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Bounds on Abelian Currents in 4d CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with an abelian U(1)U(1) global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap approach. We obtain numerical bounds on the scaling dimensions of low-lying operators, the stress-tensor central charge, and a particular combination of the 't Hooft anomaly and the current central charge. Our analysis provides the first non-perturbative constraints on four-dimensional CFTs with conserved abelian currents and establishes a framework that can be extended to theories with non-abelian global symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.2512.20710,
  title  = {Bounds on Abelian Currents in 4d CFTs},
  author = {Denis Karateev and Petr Kravchuk and Andrea Manenti and Marten Reehorst and Alessandro Vichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.20710},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

12 pages + appendices, 4 figures

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