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We analyze the four-point function of stress-tensor multiplets for the 6d quantum field theory with $OSp(8^*|4)$ symmetry which is conjectured to be dual to M-theory on $AdS_7 \times S^4$, and deduce the leading correction to the tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Paul Heslop , Arthur E. Lipstein

We analyze the constraints on the general form and the singularity structure of the correlation functions of the symmetric, traceless and conserved stress-energy tensor implied by conformal invariance and higher spin symmetry in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Yassen S. Stanev

We bootstrap ${\cal N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories in six dimensions, by analyzing the four-point function of flavor current multiplets. Assuming $E_8$ flavor group, we present universal bounds on the central charge $C_T$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-03 Chi-Ming Chang , Ying-Hsuan Lin

We use modern bootstrap techniques to study half-BPS line defects in 4d N=4 superconformal theories. Specifically, we consider the 1d CFT with OSP(4*|4) superconformal symmetry living on such a defect. Our analysis is general and based only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

We describe a new approach to computing the chiral part of correlation functions of stress-tensor supermultiplets in N=4 SYM that relies on symmetries, analytic properties and the structure of the OPE only. We demonstrate that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Dmitry Chicherin , Reza Doobary , Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Emery Sokatchev

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 extend the work of [4] to support the conjecture that any conformal field theory with a large N expansion and a large gap in the spectrum of anomalous dimensions has a local bulk dual. We count to O(1/N^2) the solutions to the crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Idse Heemskerk , James Sully

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

We use the conformal bootstrap to study conformal field theories with $O(N)$ global symmetry in $d=5$ and $d=5.95$ spacetime dimensions that have a scalar operator $\phi_i$ transforming as an $O(N)$ vector. The crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We compute the superconformal partial waves of the four-point correlator $\langle JJJJ\rangle$, in which the external operator $J$ is the superconformal primary of the $4D$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ stress-tensor multiplet $\mathcal{J}$. We develop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Zhijin Li

We present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain OPE coefficients, we find a plethora of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Matthew S. Mitchell

We analytically study the lightcone limit of the conformal bootstrap equations for 4-point functions containing global symmetry currents and the stress tensor in 3d CFTs. We show that the contribution of the stress tensor to the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-01 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland

We combine supersymmetric localization and the conformal bootstrap to study five-dimensional superconformal field theories. To begin, we classify the admissible counter-terms and derive a general relation between the five-sphere partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Chi-Ming Chang , Martin Fluder , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Yifan Wang

We combine supersymmetric localization results with numerical bootstrap techniques to compute upper bounds on the low-lying CFT data of ${\cal N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory as a function of the complexified gauge coupling $\tau$. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Shai M. Chester , Ross Dempsey , Silviu S. Pufu

A superconformal generalization of Dirac's formalism for manifest conformal covariance is presented and applied to the free (2,0) tensor multiplet field theory in six dimensions. A graded symmetric superfield, defined on a supercone in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Par Arvidsson

We find a simple relation between two-dimensional BPS N=2 superconformal blocks and bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks, which allows us to analyze the crossing equations for BPS 4-point functions in unitary (2,2) superconformal theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We analyse the OPE of any two 1/2 BPS operators of (2,0) SCFT$_6$ by constructing all possible three-point functions that they can form with another, in general long operator. Such three-point functions are uniquely determined by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 B. Eden , S. Ferrara , E. Sokatchev

An important part of a CFT four-point function, the stress tensor sector, comprises the exchanges of the stress tensor and its composites. The OPE coefficients of these multi-stress tensor operators and consequently, the complete stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

In this paper, we analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on conformal theories in large dimensions. In particular, we show that in a unitary conformal theory in large dimension $D$, the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

We discuss to what extent the full set of Ward Identities constrain the four-point function of the stress-energy tensors or conserved currents in a conformal field theory. We calculate the number of kinematically unrestricted functional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-11 Anatoly Dymarsky