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We study gauging operations (or group extensions) in (smeared) boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) and bulk conformal field theories, and their applications to various phenomena in topologically ordered systems. We apply the resultant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-22 Yoshiki Fukusumi

We propose a codimension two holography between a gravitational theory on a $d+1$ dimensional wedge spacetime and a $d-1$ dimensional CFT which lives on the corner of the wedge. Formulating this as a generalization of AdS/CFT, we explain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-21 Ibrahim Akal , Yuya Kusuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Zixia Wei

We study operators with large internal charge in boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with internal symmetries. Using the state-operator correspondence and the existence of a macroscopic limit, we find a non-trivial relation between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Gabriel Cuomo , Márk Mezei , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We investigate higher-dimensional analogues of the $bc$ systems of 2D RCFT. When coupled to gauge fields and Beltrami differentials defining integrable holomorphic structures the $bc$ partition functions can be explicitly evaluated using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-07 Andrei Losev , Gregory Moore , Nikita Nekrasov , Samson Shatashvili

In this paper we study various dynamical aspects of the AdS/BCFT correspondence in higher dimensions. We study properties of holographic stress energy tensor by analyzing the metric perturbation in the gravity dual. We also calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Keisuke Izumi , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Kenta Suzuki , Tadashi Takayanagi , Norihiro Tanahashi

Although it is long believed that vanishing of chiral central charges of a 2d conformal field theory (CFT) implies the existence of conformal boundary conditions, there are yet higher obstructions. In this paper, we focus on 2d rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Ruizhi Liu , Weicheng Ye

We continue the study of Carroll limits on partition functions of relativistic conformal theories and their thermodynamics. By introducing imaginary chemical potentials $v$ conjugate to momenta, one can access and study the Carroll regime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Georgios Poulias , Stefan Vandoren

We introduce a new approach to the study of the crossing equation for CFTs in the presence of a boundary. We argue that there is a basis for this equation related to the generalized free field solution. The dual basis is a set of linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-25 Apratim Kaviraj , Miguel F. Paulos

We derive model-independent lower bounds on the stress tensor central charge C_T in terms of the operator content of a 4-dimensional Conformal Field Theory. More precisely, C_T is bounded from below by a universal function of the dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 Riccardo Rattazzi , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

The flat/CFT dictionary between the bulk gravitational theory and boundary conformal field theory is systematically developed in this paper. Asymptotically flat spacetime is built up by asymptotically AdS hyperboloid slices in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Zezhuang Hao

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

In the presence of boundaries the integrated conformal anomaly is modified by the boundary terms so that the anomaly is non-vanishing in any (even or odd) dimension. The boundary terms are due to extrinsic curvature whose exact structure in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-09 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Sergey N. Solodukhin

In this paper we discuss geodesic Witten diagrams in generic holographic conformal field theories with boundary or defect. Boundary CFTs allow two different decompositions of two-point functions into conformal blocks: boundary channel and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Andreas Karch , Yoshiki Sato

Using the fact that flat space with a boundary is related by a Weyl transformation to anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, one may study observables in boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) by placing a CFT in AdS. In addition to correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to compute the central charges of the d=4, N=2 superconformal field theories arising from N D3-branes at singularities in F-theory. These include the conformal theories with E_n global symmetries. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Ofer Aharony , Yuji Tachikawa

We demonstrate that, by utilizing the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) operator algebra of the Liouville CFT, one can express its path-integral on any Riemann surface as a three dimensional path-integral with appropriate boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lin Chen , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang , Bing-Xin Lao

In this work, we investigate the partition function of 2d CFT under root-$T\bar{T}$ deformation. We demonstrate that the deformed partition function satisfies a flow equation. At large central charge sector, the deformed partition function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Miao He

We study conserved charges of $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity formulated as a constrained BF theory based on the $\OSp(1|4)$ superalgebra. Using the covariant phase space formalism, we derive bulk and boundary contributions to the symplectic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Remigiusz Durka , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Rene Payne

We discuss universal properties of conformal field theories with holographic duals. A central feature of these theories is the existence of a low-lying sector of operators whose correlators factorize. We demonstrate that factorization can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Sheer El-Showk , Kyriakos Papadodimas

In this paper, based on the principles of gauge/gravity duality and considering the so called \textit{hydrodynamic} limit we compute various charge transport properties for a class of strongly coupled non relativistic CFTs corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-31 Dibakar Roychowdhury