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We study two-dimensional conformal field theories generated from a ``symplectic fermion'' - a free two-component fermion field of spin one - and construct the maximal local supersymmetric conformal field theory generated from it. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Horst G. Kausch

We provide the leading near conformal corrections on a cylinder to the scaling dimension $\Delta_Q^\ast$ of fixed isospin charge $Q$ operators defined at the lower boundary of the Quantum Chromodynamics conformal window: \begin{equation}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Jahmall Bersini , Alessandra D'Alise , Clelia Gambardella , Francesco Sannino

Anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators with large Lorentz spin scale logarithmically with the spin. Recent multi-loop QCD calculations of twist-two anomalous dimensions revealed the existence of interesting structure of the subleading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Basso , G. P. Korchemsky

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with MN and tetragonal global symmetry in $d=2+1$ dimensions are relevant for structural, antiferromagnetic and helimagnetic phase transitions in a wide class of materials. The study of these theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-23 Andreas Stergiou

We investigate the low energy physics of particles in the symmetric phase of the N=6 mass-deformed ABJM theory in terms of the superconformal nonrelativistic field theory with 14 supercharges. They describe the certain kind of excitations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Ki-Myeong Lee , Sangmin Lee , Sungjay Lee

We prove that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (with no extended chiral algebra, and with central charges $c_L, c_R > 1$) contains a primary operator with dimension $\Delta_1$ that satisfies $0 < \Delta_1 < (c_L +…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-10 Simeon Hellerman

In celestial conformal field theory, gluons are represented by primary fields with dimensions $\Delta=1+i\lambda$, $\lambda\in\mathbb{R}$ and spin $J=\pm 1$, in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. All two- and three-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

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

The renormalization of composite operators is a fundamental aspect of quantum field theory, relevant for the description of phase transitions and high energy phenomenology. We calculate the anomalous dimensions of a large set of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have rich dynamics in heavy states. We describe the constraints due to spontaneously broken boost and dilatation symmetries in such states. The spontaneously broken boost symmetries require the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Zohar Komargodski , Márk Mezei , Sridip Pal , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We derive constraints on two-dimensional conformal field theories with higher spin symmetry due to unitarity, modular invariance, and causality. We focus on CFTs with $\mathcal{W}_N$ symmetry in the "irrational" regime, where $c>N-1$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Kale Colville , Thomas Hartman , Alexander Maloney , Eric Perlmutter

Six-dimensional conformal field theories with $(2,0)$ supersymmetry are shown to possess a protected sector of operators and observables that are isomorphic to a two-dimensional chiral algebra. We argue that the chiral algebra associated to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 3D conformal field theories with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ or parity symmetry, assuming a single relevant scalar operator $\epsilon$ that is invariant under the symmetry. When there is additionally a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland

We analyse the general structure of the three-point functions involving conserved bosonic and fermionic higher-spin currents in three-dimensional conformal field theory. Using the constraints of conformal symmetry and conservation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-14 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Benjamin J. Stone

We study two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory describing four-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supergravity/Yang-Mills systems and show that the underlying symmetry is a supersymmetric generalization of BMS symmetry. We construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

By considering AdS_5 x S^5 string states with large angular momenta in S^5 one is able to provide non-trivial quantitative checks of the AdS/CFT duality. A string rotating in S^5 with two angular momenta J_1,J_2 is dual to an operator in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 M. Kruczenski , A. V. Ryzhov , A. A. Tseytlin

We extend the recent formalism developed for computing rapidity anomalous dimension of form factors using unitarity to the problem of high-energy near forward scattering. By combining the factorization of $2\rightarrow 2$ scattering in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Ira Z. Rothstein , Michael Saavedra

We present the analysis of all possible shortenings which occur for composite gauge invariant conformal primary superfields in SU(2,2/N) invariant gauge theories. These primaries have top-spin range N/2 \leq J_{max} < N with J_{max} = J_1 +…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Andrianopoli , S. Ferrara , E. Sokatchev , B. Zupnik

We consider the structure of effective lagrangians describing the low-energy dynamics of supersymmetric theories in which a global symmetry $G$ is spontaneously broken to a subgroup $H$ while supersymmetry is unbroken. In accordance with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Markus A. Luty , John March-Russell , Hitoshi Murayama