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We consider a two-dimensional fermion on the strip in the presence of an arbitrary number of zero-dimensional boundary changing defects. We show that the theory is still conformal with time dependent stress-energy tensor and that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Riccardo Finotello , Igor Pesando

We develop a formalism to study the implications of causality on OPE coefficients in conformal field theories with large central charge and a sparse spectrum of higher spin operators. The formalism has the interpretation of a new conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini

This work explores holographic correlators within the frameworks of two-dimensional Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT) and Crosscap Conformal Field Theory (XCFT). Utilizing the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compute stress tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Yun-Ze Li , Yunfei Xie , Song He

The presence of a boundary (or defect) in a conformal field theory allows one to generalize the notion of an exactly marginal deformation. Without a boundary, one must find an operator of protected scaling dimension $\Delta$ equal to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Christopher P. Herzog , Itamar Shamir

We determine the universal part of pseudoentropy for small shape deformations of spherical entangling surfaces in the context of de Sitter/conformal field theory (dS/CFT) correspondence. The leading correction at quadratic order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Giorgos Anastasiou , Ignacio J. Araya , Avijit Das , Javier Moreno

We calculate four-point correlation functions of two weight-2 and two weight-3 1/2-BPS operators in \mathcal{N}=4 SYM in the large N limit in supergravity approximation. By the AdS/CFT conjecture, these operators are dual to AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 León Berdichevsky , Pieter Naaijkens

We explore the constraining power of OPE associativity in 4D Conformal Field Theory with a continuous global symmetry group. We give a general analysis of crossing symmetry constraints in the 4-point function <Phi Phi Phi* Phi*>, where Phi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 Riccardo Rattazzi , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

It was recently shown that charged AdS boson stars can reproduce the universal structure of the lowest scaling dimension in the subsector of a CFT with fixed large global $U(1)$ charge $Q$. Using the model consisting of Einstein-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-23 Shi-Fa Guo , Hai-Shan Liu , H. Lu , Yi Pang

We calculate the anomalous dimensions of operators with large global charge $J$ in certain strongly coupled conformal field theories in three dimensions, such as the O(2) model and the supersymmetric fixed point with a single chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Simeon Hellerman , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert , Masataka Watanabe

Causality places nontrivial constraints on QFT in Lorentzian signature, for example fixing the signs of certain terms in the low energy Lagrangian. In d-dimensional conformal field theory, we show how such constraints are encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-05 Thomas Hartman , Sachin Jain , Sandipan Kundu

We reveal elegant relations between the shape dependence of the Casimir effects and Weyl anomaly in boundary conformal field theories (BCFT). We show that for any BCFT which has a description in terms of an effective action, the near…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Rong-Xin Miao , Chong-Sun Chu

We consider the momentum-space 3-point correlators of currents, stress tensors and marginal scalar operators in general odd-dimensional conformal field theories. We show that the flat space limit of these correlators is spanned by gauge and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-22 Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein , Paul McFadden

We consider the four-point correlator of the stress tensor multiplet in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM in the limit of large central charge $c \sim N^2$. For finite values of $g^2N$ single-trace intermediate operators arise at order $1/c$ and this leads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi

In this note we demonstrate that, as we conjectured earlier in [1], the a-charge in the conformal anomaly in dimension $d=2n$ manifests in a $n$-point correlation function of energy momentum tensor of a CFT considered in flat spacetime with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Sergey N. Solodukhin

Motivated by the three-dimensional topological field theory / two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) correspondence, we study a broad class of one-dimensional quantum mechanical models, known as anyonic chains, that can give rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Matthew Buican , Andrey Gromov

We give a construction of the stress-energy tensor of conformal field theory (CFT) as a local "object" in conformal loop ensembles CLE_\kappa, for all values of \kappa in the dilute regime 8/3 < \kappa <= 4 (corresponding to the central…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Benjamin Doyon

We investigate higher-order corrections to correlators in a general CFT (conformal field theory) with the double-trace $T\bar{T}$ deformation. Standard perturbation theory proves inadequate for this problem due to the intricate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Song He , Yuan Sun , Jiashi Yin

For any unitary conformal field theory in two dimensions with the central charge $c$, we prove that, if there is a nontrivial primary operator whose conformal dimension $\Delta$ vanishes in some limit on the conformal manifold, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Hirosi Ooguri , Yifan Wang

We study stress tensor correlation functions in four-dimensional conformal field theories with large $N$ and a sparse spectrum. Theories in this class are expected to have local holographic duals, so effective field theory in anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Sandipan Kundu , Amirhossein Tajdini