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Unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) are believed to have positive (non-negative) energy correlators. Energy correlators are universal observables in higher-dimensional CFTs built out of integrated Wightman functions of the stress-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alexander Zhiboedov

The study of boundary conditions in rational conformal field theories is not only physically important. It also reveals a lot on the structure of the theory ``in the bulk''. The same graphs classify both the torus and the cylinder partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Petkova , J. -B. Zuber

Flat/CCFT is a correspondence between gravity in asymptotically flat backgrounds and a field theory which is given by contraction of conformal field theory. In order to find a dictionary for Flat/CCFT correspondence one can start from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Reza Fareghbal , Ali Naseh

There is a widely held belief that conformal field theories (CFTs) require zero beta functions. Nevertheless, the work of Jack and Osborn implies that the beta functions are not actually the quantites that decide conformality, but until…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-14 Jean-François Fortin , Benjamin Grinstein , Andreas Stergiou

We study general correlation functions of various quantum field theories in the holographic setup. Following the holographic proposal, we investigate correlation functions via a geodesic length connecting boundary operators. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Hanse Kim , Jitendra Pal , Chanyong Park

Conformal fields with boundaries give rise to rich critical phenomena that can reveal information about the underlying conformality. While most existing studies focus on Hermitian systems, here we explore boundary critical phenomena in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-01 Yin Tang , Qianyu Liu , Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

Logarithmic conformal field theories are based on vertex algebras with non-semisimple representation categories. While examples of such theories have been known for more than 25 years, some crucial aspects of local logarithmic CFTs have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Jürgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

Conformal symmetry has important consequences for strong interactions at short distances and provides powerful tools for practical calculations. Even if the Lagrangians of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and Electrodynamics (QED) are invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Matteo Maria Maglio , Riccardo Tommasi

The correlators of two-dimensional rational conformal field theories that are obtained in the TFT construction of [FRSI,FRSII,FRSIV] are shown to be invariant under the action of the relative modular group and to obey bulk and boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jens Fjelstad , Jurgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

It is generally taken for granted that two-dimensional critical phenomena can be fully classified by the well known two-dimensional (rational) conformal quantum field theories (CQFTs). In particular it is believed that in models with a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 Adrian Patrascioiu , Erhard Seiler

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

We explore higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) in the presence of a conformal defect that itself hosts another sub-dimensional defect. We refer to this new kind of conformal defect as the composite defect. We elaborate on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-26 Soichiro Shimamori

A class of two-dimensional topological conformal field theories (TCFTs) is studied within the framework of gauged WZW models in order to gain some insights on the global geometrical nature of TCFTs. The BRST quantizations of topological G/H…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Toshio Nakatsu , Yuji Sugawara

We use the embedding formalism to construct conformal fields in $D$ dimensions, by restricting Lorentz-invariant ensembles of homogeneous neural networks in $(D+2)$ dimensions to the projective null cone. Conformal correlators may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 James Halverson , Joydeep Naskar , Jiahua Tian

We propose a method to analytically solve the bootstrap equation for two point functions in boundary CFT. We consider the analytic structure of the correlator in Lorentzian signature and in particular the discontinuity of bulk and boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-14 Agnese Bissi , Tobias Hansen , Alexander Söderberg

The general form of a 2D conformal field theory (CFT) correlator on a Euclidean Riemann surface, Lorentzian plane or Lorentzian cylinder is well-known. This paper describes the general form of 2- and 3-point CFT correlators on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Walker Melton , Atul Sharma , Andrew Strominger

We study the properties of 2+1d conformal field theories (CFTs) in a background magnetic field. Using generalized particle-vortex duality, we argue that in many cases of interest the theory becomes gapped, which allows us to make a number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Rufus Boyack , Luca V. Delacrétaz , Éric Dupuis , William Witczak-Krempa

We study Schr\"odinger invariant field theories (nonrelativistic conformal field theories) in the large charge (particle number) sector. We do so by constructing the effective field theory (EFT) for a Goldstone boson of the associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-12 S. M. Kravec , Sridip Pal

We investigate the constraints of crossing symmetry on CFT correlation functions. Four point conformal blocks are naturally viewed as functions on the upper-half plane, on which crossing symmetry acts by PSL(2,Z) modular transformations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Gim Seng Ng

We analyze the beta-function equations for string theory in the case when the target space has one spacelike (or timelike) direction and rest is some conformal field theory (CFT) with appropriate central charge and has one nearly marginal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Sudipta Mukherji