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$T\bar{T}$ deformed conformal field theories can be reformulated as worldsheet theories of non-critical strings. We use this correspondence to compute and study the $T\bar{T}$ deformed partition sum of a symmetric product CFT. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-23 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Jorrit Kruthoff , Herman Verlinde , Mengyang Zhang

We investigate generic n-point correlation functions of conformal field theories (CFTs), with $T\bar{T}$ and $J\bar{T}$ deformations, in terms of the perturbative CFT approach. We systematically obtain the first order correction to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-26 Song He

The 6d (2,0) theory of $N$ M5 branes compactified on the product geometry $T^2\times S$, where $S$ is a K\"ahler 4-manifold, can be studied in two different limits. In one limit, the size of $T^2$ is taken to zero and together with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Jin Chen , Wei Cui , Babak Haghighat , Youran Sun

We study the map between two descriptions of the $T\bar{T}$ deformation of conformal field theory (CFT): One is the defining description as a deformation of CFT by the $T\bar{T}$-operator. The other is an alternative description as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-14 Shinji Hirano , Masaki Shigemori

6d (2,0) SCFTs of type $\mathfrak{g}$ have protected subsectors that were conjectured in arxiv:1404.1079 to be captured by $\mathcal{W}_\mathfrak{g}$ algebras. We write down the crossing equations for mixed four-point functions $\langle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Mitchell Woolley

Motivated by the recent work on $T\bar{T}$-type deformations of 2D CFTs, a especial class of single-trace deformations of AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence has been investigated. From the worldsheet perspective, this corresponds to a marginal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Gaston Giribet , Matias Leoni

Starting from 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) realized via F-theory, we show how reduction on a circle leads to a uniform perspective on the phase structure of the resulting 5D theories, and their possible conformal fixed points.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Michele Del Zotto , Jonathan J. Heckman , David R. Morrison

Recently, an atomic classification scheme of 5d SCFTs has been proposed, relying on the identification of indecomposable building blocks that can be fused together to produce large classes of 5d SCFTs. These novel SCFTs are known as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Mario De Marco , Michele Del Zotto , Michele Graffeo , Andrea Sangiovanni

We study the partition function of odd-dimensional conformal field theories placed on spheres with a squashed metric. We establish that the round sphere provides a local extremum for the free energy which, in general, is not a global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-21 Nikolay Bobev , Pablo Bueno , Yannick Vreys

Two and three-point functions of primary fields in four dimensional CFT have a simple space-time dependences factored out from the combinatoric structure which enumerates the fields and gives their couplings. This has led to the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

We generalize the $T\overline{T}$ deformation of CFT$_2$ to higher-dimensional large-$N$ CFTs, and show that in holographic theories, the resulting effective field theory matches semiclassical gravity in AdS with a finite radial cutoff. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Thomas Hartman , Jorrit Kruthoff , Edgar Shaghoulian , Amirhossein Tajdini

We demonstrate that simple feed-forward neural networks (NNs) can accurately compute correlation functions of conformal field theories (CFTs) on a line. Strikingly, by optimising a NN solely on crossing symmetry and providing only the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Kausik Ghosh , Sidhaarth Kumar , Vasilis Niarchos , Andreas Stergiou

We systematically study inhomogeneous Hamiltonians in two-dimensional conformal field theories within the framework of the AdS/CFT correspondence by relating them to two-dimensional curved backgrounds. We propose a classification of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 Zhehan Li , Zhifeng Li , Jia Tian

We consider the D1-D5 CFT near the orbifold point, specifically the computation of correlators involving twist sector fields using covering surface techniques. As is well known, certain twists introduce spin fields on the cover. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-13 Benjamin A. Burrington , Amanda W. Peet , Ida G. Zadeh

We propose a construction of the quantum-corrected Coulomb branch of a general 3d gauge theory with $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetry, in terms of local coordinates associated with an abelianized theory. In a fixed complex structure, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Mathew Bullimore , Tudor Dimofte , Davide Gaiotto

We propose an interesting BPS/CFT correspondence playground: the correlation function of two intersecting half-BPS surface defects in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $2N$ fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Saebyeok Jeong , Norton Lee , Nikita Nekrasov

We investigate 3d $\mathscr{N}=2$ supersymmetric gauge theories on $S^1 \times S^2$ and the corresponding 2d effective field theories arising in the limit of small ratio of radii, $\beta=R_{S^1}/R_{S^2}\to 0$. We evaluate the exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Antonio Amariti , Jun Nian , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Alessia Segati

Starting with a gentle approach to the AGT correspondence from its 6d origin, these notes provide a wide (albeit shallow) survey of the literature on numerous extensions of the correspondence up to early 2020. This is an extended writeup of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-09 Bruno Le Floch

We investigate S^3/Z_n partition function of N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories. A gauge theory on the orbifold has degenerate vacua specified by the holonomy. The partition function is obtained by summing up the contributions of saddle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Yosuke Imamura , Daisuke Yokoyama

We propose a reformulation of the conformal perturbation theory of the correlation functions in $J\bar{J}$-deformed CFTs as a dressing on the deformed operators, that matches both bare and renormalized perturbation theory. The key is to use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Kangning Liu