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The spectrum of IIB supergravity on AdS${}_5 \times S^5$ contains a number of bound states described by long double-trace multiplets in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory at large 't Hooft coupling. At large $N$ these states are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. Heslop , H. Paul

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, with a focus on the Ising model in various dimensions. We show that an analytic approach to the bootstrap is feasible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We perform a systematic study of integrated four-point functions of half-BPS operators in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory with gauge group $SU(N)$. These observables, defined by a certain spacetime integral of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Hynek Paul , Eric Perlmutter , Himanshu Raj

We study the relation between the large Nc limit of four dimensional N=2,1,0 conformal field theories and supergravity on orbifolds of AdS_5xS^5. We analyze the Kaluza-Klein states of the supergravity theory and relate them to the spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Yaron Oz , John Terning

In this paper we introduce the characteristic dimension of a four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory, which is an extraordinary simple invariant determined by the scaling dimensions of its Coulomb branch operators. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-14 Sergio Cecotti , Michele Del Zotto , Mario Martone , Robert Moscrop

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

Superconformal transformations are derived for the $\N=2,4 supermultiplets corresponding to the simplest chiral primary operators. These are applied to two, three and four point correlation functions. When $\N=4$, results are obtained for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

The four point functions of chiral primary BPS operators in ${\cal N}=4$ superconformal Yang Mills are expressed in a form manifestly satisfying the superconformal Ward identities. They are subsequently expanded in terms of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-15 Christopher Rayson

In this thesis I review various aspects of the AdS_4/CFT_3 correspondence, where AdS_4 supergravity arises from compactification of M-theory on a coset space G/H and preserves N<8 supersymmetries. One focal point of my review is that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Leonardo Gualtieri

For general N=5 and N=6 superconformal field theories in three dimensions, we compute the three-point correlation functions of the supercurrent multiplets. In each case, N=5 and N=6, the functional form of this correlator is uniquely fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Igor B. Samsonov

We present a construction of the integrand of the correlation function of four stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 SYM at weak coupling. It does not rely on Feynman diagrams and makes use of the recently discovered symmetry of the integrand…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

For the 11-dimensional supergravity over AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k, beginning with a general 4-from ansatz and the main geometry unchanged, we get a tower of massive and tachyonic pseudoscalars. Indeed, the resultant equations can be assigned to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-29 M. Naghdi

The constraints of conformal bootstrap are applied to investigate a set of conformal field theories in various dimensions. The prescriptions can be applied to both unitary and non unitary theories allowing for the study of the spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Ferdinando Gliozzi , Antonio Rago

We use the superconformal bootstrap to derive exact relations between OPE coefficients in three-dimensional superconformal field theories with ${\cal N} \geq 4$ supersymmetry. These relations follow from a consistent truncation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Shai M. Chester , Jaehoon Lee , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We re-examine positivity bounds on the $2\to2$ scattering of identical massless real scalars with a novel perspective on how these bounds can be used to constrain the spectrum of UV theories. We propose that the entire space of consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Justin Berman , Henriette Elvang , Nicholas Geiser , Loki L. Lin

Basics of ${\cal N}=2, 4D$ conformal and Einstein supergravities in the harmonic superspace approach are outlined. The crucial merit of this formulation consists in that the relevant off-shell supermultiplets, in particular ${\cal N}=2, 4D$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Evgeny Ivanov

We construct the most general four-dimensional ${\cal N}=4$ supergravity coupled to an arbitrary number $n$ of vector multiplets in which the global scaling symmetry is gauged, in addition to a subgroup of $\text{SL}(2,\mathbb{R}) \times…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Nikolaos Liatsos

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

We summarise recent work on superconformal field theories using analytic superspace. All operators of N=4 SYM can be given as unconstrained superfields on analytic superspace. We show how to write down operators as superfields on analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. J. Heslop

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories with flavor symmetry $\mathfrak{so}_{4k}$. We present evidence that minimal $(D_k, D_k)$ conformal matter saturates the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Florent Baume , Craig Lawrie