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A conformal field theory can be recovered, via the Kontsevich-Miwa transform, as a solution to the Virasoro constraints on the KP tau function. That theory, which we call KM CFT, consists of d \leq 1 matter plus a scalar and a dressing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Beatriz Gato-Rivera , Jose Ignacio Rosado

Some issues in the loop variable renormalization group approach to gauge invariant equations for the free fields of the open string are discussed. It had been shown in an earlier paper that this leads to a simple form of the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 B. Sathiapalan

A solution to the long-standing problem of identifying the conformal field theory governing the transition between quantized Hall plateaus of a disordered noninteracting 2d electron gas, is proposed. The theory is a nonlinear sigma model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin R. Zirnbauer

We present recent progress in theory of local conformal nets which is an operator algebraic approach to study chiral conformal field theory. We emphasize representation theoretic aspects and relations to theory of vertex operator algebras…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-01 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi

The main result of this paper is the construction of a conformally covariant operator in two dimensions acting on scalar fields and containing fourth order derivatives. In this way it is possible to derive a class of Lagrangians invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Franco Ferrari

The purpose of this work is to show that there exists an additional invariance of the $\beta$-function equations of string theory on $d+1$-dimensional targets with $d$ toroidal isometries. It corresponds to a shift of the dilaton field and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nemanja Kaloper

It has recently been shown that the Nambu-Goto equation for a string emerges from the junction conditions in three-dimensional gravity. Holographically, gravitational junctions are dual to interfaces in conformal field theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Avik Chakraborty , Tanay Kibe , Martín Molina , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Hardik Vamshi

We study the renormalization of non-commutative gauge theories with matter. As in the scalar field theory cases, there are logarithmic infrared divergences resulting from integrating out high momentum modes. In order to reproduce the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Arvind Rajaraman , Moshe Rozali

We realize an explicit conformal mapping between the state and operator pictures in a class of (2+1)-dimensional non-Lorentzian field theories with SU(1,2)$\times$U(1) conformal symmetry. The state picture arises from null reducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-20 Stefano Baiguera , Troels Harmark , Yang Lei , Ziqi Yan

Recovering microscopic couplings directly from data provides a route to solving the inverse problem in statistical field theories, one that complements the traditional-often computationally intractable-forward approach of predicting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-24 Shreya Shukla , Abhijith Jayakumar , Andrey Y. Lokhov

Some time ago, conformal data with affine fusion rules were found. Our purpose here is to realize some of these conformal data, using systems of free bosons and parafermions. The so constructed theories have an extended $W$ algebras which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Doron Gepner

We analyze deformations of two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) from the perspective of classical bosonic closed string field theory (SFT). The latter can be viewed as a version of Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-21 Ben Mazel , Joshua Sandor , Charles Wang , Xi Yin

We generalize the exact field theoretic correspondence proposed in arXiv:1103.5726 and embed it into the context of refined topological string. The correspondence originally proposed from the common integrable structures in different field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Heng-Yu Chen , Annamaria Sinkovics

We investigate a supersymmetric generalisation of topological recursion from two perspectives: algebraic and geometric. The algebraic side concerns a recursive structure encoded in modules of a super Virasoro algebra, and the geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Nezhla Aghaei , Reinier Kramer , Nicolas Orantin , Kento Osuga

We attempt a direct derivation of a conformal field theory description of 2D quantum gravity~+~matter from the formalism of integrable hierarchies subjected to Virasoro constraints. The construction is based on a generalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-01 A. M. Semikhatov

The main limitations of string field theory arise because its present formulation requires a background representing a classical solution, a background defined by a strictly conformally invariant theory. Here we sketch a construction for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Barton Zwiebach

The compatibility between the conformal symmetry and the closure of conformal algebras is discussed on the nonlinear sigma model. The present approach, above the basis of field redefinition employed in the Hamiltonian scheme, attempts the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon C. Lin , Feng Yin Li , Tsong Ming Liaw

It is well known that rational 2D conformal field theories are connected with Chern-Simons theories defined on 3D real manifolds. We consider holomorphic analogues of Chern-Simons theories defined on 3D complex manifolds (six real…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. D. Popov

For conformal field theories in arbitrary dimensions, we introduce a method to derive the conformal blocks corresponding to the exchange of a traceless symmetric tensor appearing in four point functions of operators with spin. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

We have shown that a particular class of non-local free field theory has conformal symmetry in arbitrary dimensions. Using the local field theory counterpart of this class, we have found the Noether currents and Ward identities of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 M. A. Rajabpour