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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

Unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) are believed to have positive (non-negative) energy correlators. Energy correlators are universal observables in higher-dimensional CFTs built out of integrated Wightman functions of the stress-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alexander Zhiboedov

Recently established rationality of correlation functions in a globally conformal invariant quantum field theory satisfying Wightman axioms is used to construct a family of soluble models in 4-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikolay M. Nikolov , Yassen S. Stanev , Ivan T. Todorov

The correlators of free four dimensional conformal field theories (CFT4) have been shown to be given by amplitudes in two-dimensional $so(4,2)$ equivariant topological field theories (TFT2), by using a vertex operator formalism for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

We have shown that a particular class of non-local free field theory has conformal symmetry in arbitrary dimensions. Using the local field theory counterpart of this class, we have found the Noether currents and Ward identities of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 M. A. Rajabpour

The presence of a boundary (or defect) in a conformal field theory allows one to generalize the notion of an exactly marginal deformation. Without a boundary, one must find an operator of protected scaling dimension $\Delta$ equal to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Christopher P. Herzog , Itamar Shamir

We present a complete momentum-space prescription for the renormalisation of tensorial correlators in conformal field theories. Our discussion covers all 3-point functions of stress tensors and conserved currents in arbitrary spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

We prove that finite-index conformal nets are fully dualizable objects in the 3-category of conformal nets. Therefore, assuming the cobordism hypothesis applies, there exists a local framed topological field theory whose value on the point…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Arthur Bartels , Christopher L. Douglas , André Henriques

We discuss two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) which are invariant under gauging a non-invertible global symmetry. At every point on the orbifold branch of $c=1$ CFTs, it is known that the theory is self-dual under gauging a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Yichul Choi , Da-Chuan Lu , Zhengdi Sun

Considering arbitrary conformal field theories in general (non-conformally flat) backgrounds, we adopt a dimensional regularization approach to obtain stress tensors from Weyl anomalies. The results of type A anomaly-induced stress tensors…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Kuo-Wei Huang

Conformally compactified (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime may be identified with the projective light cone in (4+2)-dimensional spacetime. In the latter spacetime the special conformal group acts via rotations and boosts, and conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-05 Steven Duplij , Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir Shtelen

Just as exactly marginal operators allow to deform a conformal field theory along the space of theories known as the conformal manifold, appropriate operators on conformal defects allow for deformations of the defects. When a defect breaks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Nadav Drukker , Ziwen Kong , Georgios Sakkas

A modular tensor category provides the appropriate data for the construction of a three-dimensional topological field theory. We describe the following analogue for two-dimensional conformal field theories: a 2-category whose objects are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ingo Runkel , Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

We develop a manifestly conformal approach to describe linearised (super)conformal higher-spin gauge theories in arbitrary conformally flat backgrounds in three and four spacetime dimensions. Closed-form expressions in terms of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Michael Ponds

We show that exactly marginal operators of Supersymmetric Conformal Field Theories (SCFTs) with four supercharges cannot obtain a vacuum expectation value at a generic point on the conformal manifold. Exactly marginal operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-29 Zohar Komargodski , Shlomo S. Razamat , Orr Sela , Adar Sharon

We construct a large class of conformal interfaces between two-dimensional c=1 conformal field theories describing compact free bosons and their Z_2 orbifolds. The interfaces are obtained by constructing boundary states in the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-09 Melanie Becker , Yaniel Cabrera , Daniel Robbins

This article examines the coincidence of the projective and conformal Weyl tensors associated to a given connection D. The connection may be a general Weyl connection associated to a conformal class of metrics [g]. The main result for n>3…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Christian Lübbe

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

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