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In this thesis we study two-dimensional conformal field theories with Virasoro algebra symmetry, following the conformal bootstrap approach. Under the assumption that degenerate fields exist, we provide an extension of the analytic…

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The article provides a pedagogical review aimed at graduate students in materials science, physics, and applied mathematics, focusing on recent developments in the subject. Following a brief summary of concepts from complex analysis, the…

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A piecewise flat manifold is a triangulated manifold given a geometry by specifying edge lengths (lengths of 1-simplices) and specifying that all simplices are Euclidean. We consider the variation of angles of piecewise flat manifolds as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-10-22 David Glickenstein

The loop super-Virasoro conformal superalgebra $\mathfrak{cls}$ associated with the loop super-Virasoro algebra is constructed in the present paper. The conformal superderivation algebra of $\mathfrak{cls}$ is completely determined, which…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Xiansheng Dai , Jianzhi Han

For a vertex operator algebra $V$, one may naturally define spaces of conformal blocks following a construction of Frenkel-Ben-Zvi generalized by Damiolini-Gibney-Tarasca. If $V$ is strongly rational, these spaces of conformal blocks form…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Chiara Damiolini , Lukas Woike

We study twist operators in higher dimensional CFT's. In particular, we express their conformal dimension in terms of the energy density for the CFT in a particular thermal ensemble. We construct an expansion of the conformal dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Ling-Yan Hung , Robert C. Myers , Michael Smolkin

We present a comprehensive analysis of the implications of conformal invariance for 3-point functions of the stress-energy tensor, conserved currents and scalar operators in general dimension and in momentum space. Our starting point is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-01 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

Meta-conformal transformations are constructed as dynamical symmetries of the linear transport equation in $d$ spatial dimensions. In one and two dimensions, the associated Lie algebras are infinite-dimensional and isomorphic to the direct…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-15 Malte Henkel , Stoimen Stoimenov

We use the manifestly conformally invariant description of a Lorentzian conformal structure in terms of a parabolic Cartan geometry in order to introduce a superalgebra structure on the space of twistor spinors and normal conformal vector…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Andree Lischewski

We discuss an elementary derivation of variational symmetries and corresponding integrals of motion for the Lagrangian systems depending on acceleration. Providing several examples, we make the manuscript accessible to a wide range of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Ege Coban , Ilmar Gahramanov , Dilara Kosva

We continue the study of form factors of descendant operators in the sinh- and sine-Gordon models in the framework of the algebraic construction proposed in [arXiv:0812.4776]. We find the algebraic construction to be related to a particular…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Michael Lashkevich , Yaroslav Pugai

This paper is a direct continuation of\ \BLZ\ where we begun the study of the integrable structures in Conformal Field Theory. We show here how to construct the operators ${\bf Q}_{\pm}(\lambda)$ which act in highest weight Virasoro module…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-11 V. Bazhanov , S. Lukyanov , A. Zamolodchikov

Every four-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ superconformal field theory comes equipped with an intricate algebraic invariant, the associated vertex operator algebra. The relationships between this invariant and more conventional protected…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli

First-order variational equations are widely used in N-body simulations to study how nearby trajectories diverge from one another. These allow for efficient and reliable determinations of chaos indicators such as the Maximal Lyapunov…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

Conformal blocks are a central analytic tool for higher dimensional conformal field theory. We employ Harish-Chandra's radial component map to construct universal Casimir differential equations for spinning conformal blocks in any dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus

The notion of vertex operator coalgebra is presented and motivated via the geometry of conformal field theory. Specifically, we describe the category of geometric vertex operator coalgebras, whose objects have comultiplicative structures…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Keith Hubbard

Numerous tasks in imaging and vision can be formulated as variational problems over vector-valued maps. We approach the relaxation and convexification of such vectorial variational problems via a lifting to the space of currents. To that…

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In this paper we study $2$nd order $L^\infty$ variational problems, through seeking to minimise a supremal functional involving the Hessian of admissible functions as well as lower-order terms. Specifically, given a bounded domain…

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In this paper, we study conformal biderivations of a Lie conformal algebra. First, we give the definition of conformal biderivation. Next, we determine the conformal biderivations of loop $W(a,b)$ Lie conformal algebra, loop Virasoro Lie…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Jun Zhao , Liangyun Chen , Lamei Yuan