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Obtaining the inverse of a large symmetric positive definite matrix $\mathcal{A}\in\mathbb{R}^{p\times p}$ is a continual challenge across many mathematical disciplines. The computational complexity associated with direct methods can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ann Paterson , Jennifer Pestana , Victorita Dolean

The generalized Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations of irrational conformal field theory provide a uniform description of rational and irrational conformal field theory. Starting from the known high-level solution of these equations, we first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 M. B. Halpern , N. A. Obers

We study deformations of the quantum conformal mechanics of De Alfaro-Fubini-Furlan with rational additional potential term generated by applying the generalized Darboux-Crum-Krein-Adler transformations to the quantum harmonic oscillator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 José F. Cariñena , Luis Inzunza , Mikhail S. Plyushchay

This paper expands the Cyclic Block Proximal Gradient method for block separable composite minimization by allowing for inexactly computed gradients and proximal maps. The resultant algorithm, the Inexact Cyclic Block Proximal Gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Leandro Maia , David Huckleberry Gutman , Ryan Christopher Hughes

In this paper, we compute the stationary states of the multicomponent phase-field crystal model by formulating it as a block constrained minimization problem. The original infinite-dimensional non-convex minimization problem is approximated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Chenglong Bao , Chang Chen , Kai Jiang

To a given algebraic curve we assign an infinite family of quantum curves (Schr\"odinger equations), which are in one-to-one correspondence with, and have the structure of, Virasoro singular vectors. For a spectral curve of a matrix model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-07 Masahide Manabe , Piotr Sułkowski

We continue to develop the holographic interpretation of classical conformal blocks in terms of particles propagating in an asymptotically $AdS_3$ geometry. We study $n$-point block with two heavy and $n-2$ light fields. Using the worldline…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 K. B. Alkalaev , V. A. Belavin

We study chaotic dynamics in two-dimensional conformal field theory through out-of-time order thermal correlators of the form $\langle W(t)VW(t)V\rangle$. We reproduce bulk calculations similar to those of [1], by studying the large $c$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-07 Daniel A. Roberts , Douglas Stanford

The best way to represent generic conformal blocks is provided by the free-field formalism, where they acquire a form of multiple Dotsenko-Fateev-like integrals of the screening operators. Degenerate conformal blocks can be described by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 A. Mironov , A. Morozov , Sh. Shakirov

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

Conformal blocks are the central ingredient of the conformal bootstrap programme. We elaborate on our recent observation that uncovered a relation with wave functions of an integrable Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian in order to develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Mikhail Isachenkov , Volker Schomerus

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

Virasoro conformal blocks are expected to exponentiate in the limit of large central charge $c$ and large operator dimensions $h_i$, with the ratios $h_i/c$ held fixed. We prove this by employing the oscillator formulation of the Virasoro…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Mert Besken , Shouvik Datta , Per Kraus

We classify finite irreducible conformal modules over a class of infinite Lie conformal algebras ${\frak {B}}(p)$ of Block type, where $p$ is a nonzero complex number. In particular, we obtain that a finite irreducible conformal module over…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Yucai Su , Chunguang Xia , Lamei Yuan

We construct confluent conformal blocks of the second kind of the Virasoro algebra. We also construct the Stokes transformations which map such blocks in one Stokes sector to another. In the BPZ limit, we verify explicitly that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Jonatan Lenells , Julien Roussillon

In this work we launch a systematic theory of superconformal blocks for four-point functions of arbitrary supermultiplets. Our results apply to a large class of superconformal field theories including 4-dimensional models with any number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

The AGT conjecture identifying conformal blocks with the Nekrasov functions is investigated for the spherical conformal blocks with more than 4 external legs. The diagram technique which arises in conformal block calculation involves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 V. Alba , And. Morozov

It is well known that a set of non-defect matrices can be simultaneously diagonalized if and only if the matrices commute. In the case of non-commuting matrices, the best that can be achieved is simultaneous block diagonalization. Here we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ingolf Bischer , Christian Döring , Andreas Trautner

Conformal blocks of q,t-deformed Virasoro and W-algebras are important special functions in representation theory with applications in geometry and physics. In the Nekrasov-Shatashvili limit t -> 1, whenever one of the representations is…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Shamil Shakirov

The construction of conformal blocks for the analysis of multipoint correlation functions with $N > 4$ local field insertions is an important open problem in higher dimensional conformal field theory. This is the first in a series of papers…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-18 Ilija Buric , Sylvain Lacroix , Jeremy Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus