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We present a full identification of lattice model properties with their field theoretical counter parts in the continuum limit for a supersymmetric model for itinerant spinless fermions on a one dimensional chain. The continuum limit of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-10 L. Huijse

According to recent arguments by the author, the conformal field theory (CFT) describing the scaling limit of the integer quantum Hall plateau transition is a deformed level-4 Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten model with Riemannian target space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Martin R. Zirnbauer

We study a class of nonlocal conformal field theories in two dimensions which are obtained as deformations of the Virasoro minimal models. The construction proceeds by coupling a relevant primary operator $\phi_{r,s}$ of the $m$-th minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-03 Connor Behan , Dario Benedetti , Fanny Eustachon , Edoardo Lauria

Celestial CFT$_d$ is the putative dual of quantum gravity in asymptotically flat $(d+2)$ dimensional space time. We argue that a class of Celestial CFT$_d$ can be engineered via AdS$_{d+1}$-CFT$_d$ correspondence. Our argument is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-19 Shamik Banerjee , Nishant Gupta , Sagnik Misra

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 symmetry data of a $d$-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) can often be captured in terms of a higher-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In top down (i.e., stringy) realizations of this structure, the QFT in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Mirjam Cvetič , Ron Donagi , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Ethan Torres

We introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We study constraints coming from the modular invariance of the partition function of two-dimensional conformal field theories. We constrain the spectrum of CFTs in the presence of holomorphic and anti-holomorphic currents using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-05 Jin-Beom Bae , Sungjay Lee , Jaewon Song

We consider two-dimensional chiral, first-order conformal field theories governing maps from the Riemann sphere to the projective light cone inside Minkowski space -- the natural setting for describing conformal field theories in two fewer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Tim Adamo , Ricardo Monteiro , Miguel F. Paulos

Conformal field theories (CFTs) are associated with critical phenomena and phase transitions and also play an essential role in string theory. Solving a CFT is an extremely constrained problem due to conformal invariance -- the task…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Vito Pellizzani

We study two-dimensional (4,4) superconformal field theories of central charge c=6, corresponding to nonlinear sigma models on K3 surfaces, using the superconformal bootstrap. This is made possible through a surprising relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-13 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , David Simmons-Duffin , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

When can two strongly rational vertex operator algebras or 1+1d rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) be related by topological manipulations? For vertex operator algebras, the term "topological manipulations" refers to operations like…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-13 Sven Möller , Brandon C. Rayhaun

We construct several examples of (2+1) dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories, whose moduli space is given by non-compact toric Calabi-Yau four-folds, which are not derivable from any (3+1) dimensional CFT. One such example is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-09 Sebastian Franco , Amihay Hanany , Jaemo Park , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

When conformal field theories (CFTs) are perturbed by marginally relevant deformations, renormalization group (RG) flows ensue that can be studied with perturbative methods, at least as long as they remain close to the original CFT. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Andreas Stergiou , David Stone , Lorenzo G. Vitale

In this note we study two-dimensional CFTs at large global charge. Since the large-charge sector decouples from the dynamics, it does not control the dynamics and an EFT construction that works in higher-dimensional theories fails. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-01 Thiago Araujo , Omar Celikbas , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

We study two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with boundaries via the conformal bootstrap. We derive a positive semi-definite program from crossing symmetry of three observables: the annulus partition function, the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Marco Meineri , Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan

We introduce the framework of Quantum Field Theories in general backgrounds through the lens of the path integral, in the formulation known as the Functorial QFT. With the aim of studying properties of strongly coupled QFTs, we present key…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonáš Dujava

We consider several aspects of unitary higher-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs). We first study massive deformations that trigger a flow to a gapped phase. Deep inelastic scattering in the gapped phase leads to a convexity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Zohar Komargodski , Alexander Zhiboedov

This paper is part of an effort to gain further understanding of 2D Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories (LCFTs) by exploring their lattice regularizations. While all work so far has dealt with the Virasoro algebra (or the product of left…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-16 A. M. Gainutdinov , H. Saleur , I. Yu. Tipunin

We show that N=1 supersymmetric Liouville theory can be continued to central charge c=3/2, and that the limiting non-rational superconformal field theory can also be obtained as a limit of supersymmetric minimal models. This generalises a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Stefan Fredenhagen , David Wellig