Conformal Bootstrap near the edge
High Energy Physics - Theory
2021-10-27 v2
Abstract
We propose a bootstrap program for CFTs near intersecting boundaries which form a co-dimension 2 edge. We describe the kinematical setup and show that bulk 1-pt functions and bulk-edge 2-pt functions depend on a non-trivial cross-ratio and on the angle between the boundaries. Using the boundary OPE (BOE) with respect to each boundary, we derive two independent conformal block expansions for these correlators. The matching of the two BOE expansions leads to a crossing equation. We analytically solve this equation in several simple cases, notably for a free bulk field, where we recover Feynman-diagrammatic results by Cardy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2103.03132,
title = {Conformal Bootstrap near the edge},
author = {António Antunes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.03132},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
27 pages, 5 figures; v2: added references and minor clarifications