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We propose a bootstrap program for CFTs near intersecting boundaries which form a co-dimension 2 edge. We describe the kinematical setup and show that bulk 1-pt functions and bulk-edge 2-pt functions depend on a non-trivial cross-ratio and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 António Antunes

We prove using invariance under the modular $S$- and $ST$-transformations that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) of only even-spin operators (with no extended chiral algebra and with central charges $c,\tilde{c}>1$)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 Joshua D. Qualls

We compute a set of correlation functions of operator insertions on the 1/8 BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM by employing supersymmetric localization, OPE and the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization. These correlators exhibit a simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-09 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

We use the recently developed navigator method to obtain rigorous upper and lower bounds on new OPE data in the 3d Ising CFT. For example, assuming that there are only two $\mathbb{Z}_2$-even scalar operators $\epsilon$ and $\epsilon'$ with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-23 Marten Reehorst

We study the correlation functions of a conformally coupled $\phi^4$-interacting theory in AdS$_3$ and its dual CFT$_2$. The one-loop diagram is not expressible in terms of known transcendental functions, but is shown to be expressible as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Weichen Xiao , Ivo Sachs

Superconformal field theories (SCFT) are known to possess solvable yet nontrivial sectors in their full operator algebras. Two prime examples are the chiral algebra sector on a two dimensional plane in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Mykola Dedushenko , Yifan Wang

It is a long-standing conjecture that any CFT with a large central charge and a large gap $\Delta_{\text{gap}}$ in the spectrum of higher-spin single-trace operators must be dual to a local effective field theory in AdS. We prove a sharp…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Dalimil Mazac , Leonardo Rastelli , David Simmons-Duffin

We clarify the relationships between different approaches to the conformal bootstrap. A central role is played by the so-called extremal functionals. They are linear functionals acting on the crossing equation which are directly responsible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the high-energy behavior of colorless dipole elastic scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM gauge theory through the Wilson loop correlator formalism and Euclidean to Minkowskian analytic continuation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-16 Matteo Giordano , Robi Peschanski

Using the large-charge expansion, we prove a necessary condition for a CFT to exhibit conformal symmetry breaking, under the assumption that a continuous global symmetry is ${\it also}$ broken on the moduli space: there must be a tower of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Gabriel Cuomo , Leonardo Rastelli , Adar Sharon

We compute the two- and four-point holographic correlation functions up to the second order in the coupling constant for a scalar $\phi^4$ theory in four-dimensional Euclidean anti-de Sitter space. Analytic expressions for the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Igor Bertan , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny D. Skvortsov

Many CFTs can be extended to lines of nonlocal CFTs parametrised by the scaling dimension $\Delta$ of the fundamental field appearing in the action. $\Delta=\frac{d}{2}-\zeta$ is set by the exponent of the kinetic term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Ludo Fraser-Taliente

We show that in boundary CFTs, there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the boundary operator expansion of the two-point correlation function and a power series expansion of the layer susceptibility. This general property allows the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-11 Parijat Dey , Tobias Hansen , Mykola Shpot

We study the conformal bootstrap for a 4-point function of fermions $\langle\psi\psi\psi\psi\rangle$ in 3D. We first introduce an embedding formalism for 3D spinors and compute the conformal blocks appearing in fermion 4-point functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-08 Luca Iliesiu , Filip Kos , David Poland , Silviu S. Pufu , David Simmons-Duffin , Ran Yacoby

The AdS/CFT duality maps supersymmetric heavy operators with conformal dimension of the order of the central charge to asymptotically AdS supergravity solutions. We show that by studying the quadratic fluctuations around such backgrounds it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Andrea Galliani , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo

We study correlation functions of local operator insertions on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. These correlation functions are constrained by the 1d superconformal symmetry preserved by the 1/2-BPS Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-20 Simone Giombi , Radu Roiban , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We consider the D1D5 CFT near the orbifold point and develop methods for computing the mixing of untwisted operators to first order by using the OPE on the covering surface. We argue that the OPE on the cover encodes both the structure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Benjamin A. Burrington , Ian T. Jardine , Amanda W. Peet

We construct higher dimensional Euclidean AdS wormhole solutions that reproduce the statistical description of the correlation functions of an ensemble of heavy CFT operators. We consider an operator which effectively backreacts on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Martin Sasieta

We study five-point correlation functions of scalar operators in d-dimensional conformal field theories. We develop a new approach to computing the five-point conformal blocks for exchanged primary operators of arbitrary spin by introducing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

The tricritical Ising CFT is the IR fixed-point of $\lambda\phi^6$ theory. It can be seen as a one-parameter family of CFTs connecting between an $\varepsilon$-expansion near the upper critical dimension 3 and the exactly solved minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Johan Henriksson