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We consider a two-dimensional fermion on the strip in the presence of an arbitrary number of zero-dimensional boundary changing defects. We show that the theory is still conformal with time dependent stress-energy tensor and that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-26 Riccardo Finotello , Igor Pesando

We examine the question of scale versus conformal invariance on maximally symmetric curved backgrounds and study general 2-derivative conformally invariant free theories of vectors and tensors. For spacetime dimension $D>4$, these conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Kara Farnsworth , Kurt Hinterbichler , Ondrej Hulik

We study novel conformal twist defects in 4d Maxwell theory, around which electric and magnetic fields are exchanged. These are codimension-2 defects living at the end of topological defects for certain non-invertible global symmetries. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Shu-Heng Shao , Siwei Zhong

Dynamical mass generation of a two-component fermion in $QED_3$ with a Chern-Simons term is investigated by solving the Schwinger-Dyson equation formulated in the lowest ladder approximation. Dependence of the dynamical fermion mass on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Toyoki Matsuyama , Hideko Nagahiro , Satoko Uchida

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 study an extreme non-static limit of 2+1-dimensional QED obtained by making a dimensional reduction so that all fields are spatially uniform but time dependent. This dimensional reduction leads to a 0+1-dimensional field theory that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ashok Das , Gerald Dunne

The implications of restricted conformal invariance under conformal transformations preserving a plane boundary are discussed for general dimensions $d$. Calculations of the universal function of a conformal invariant $\xi$ which appears in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. M. McAvity , H. Osborn

We consider the AdS/CFT correspondence for theories with a Chern-Simons term in three dimensions. We find the two-point functions of the boundary conformal field theories for the Proca-Chern-Simons theory and the Self-Dual model. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Pablo Minces , Victor O. Rivelles

We consider the structure of current and stress tensor two-point functions in conformal field theory with a boundary. The main result of this paper is a relation between a boundary central charge and the coefficient of a displacement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Christopher P. Herzog , Kuo-Wei Huang

The conformal symmetry algebra in 2D (Diff($S^{1}$)$\oplus$Diff($S^{1}$)) is shown to be related to its ultra/non-relativistic version (BMS$_{3}$$\approx$GCA$_{2}$) through a nonlinear map of the generators, without any sort of limiting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Pablo Rodríguez , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

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

We present a conformal theory of a dissipationless relativistic fluid in 2 space-time dimensions. The theory carries with it a representation of the algebra of 2-$D$ area-preserving diffeomorphisms in the target space of the complex scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-05 P. D. Jarvis , J. W. van Holten

Schwinger-Dyson equations are used to study the phase diagram of QED in three dimensions. This computation is made with full frequency-dependence in the two-point function gap equations for the first time. We also demonstrate that reliable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 P. M. Lo , E. S. Swanson

We study the free energy of four-dimensional CFTs on deformed spheres. For generic nonsupersymmetric CFTs only the coefficient of the logarithmic divergence in the free energy is physical, which is an extremum for the round sphere. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-10 Joseph A. Minahan , Usman Naseer , Charles Thull

We derive the explicit expression for the four-point correlation function of stress-energy tensors in four-dimensional N=4 superconformal theory. We show that it has a remarkably simple and suggestive form allowing us to predict a large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev

We consider quantum electrodynamics with chiral four-Fermi interactions in the functional renormalization group approach. In gauge theories, the functional flow equation for the effective action is accompanied by the quantum master equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Yoshio Echigo , Yuji Igarashi , Katsumi Itoh , Jan M. Pawlowski , Yu Takahashi

A quantitative prediction of Conformal Field Theory (CFT), which relates the second moment of the energy-density correlator away from criticality to the value of the central charge, is verified in the sine-Gordon model. By exploiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Naón , Mariano Salvay

We explore the new technique developed recently in \cite{Rosenhaus:2014woa} and suggest a correspondence between the $N$-point correlation functions on spacetime with conical defects and the $(N+1)$-point correlation functions in regular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Smolkin , Sergey N. Solodukhin

It has been argued several times in the past that the structure of the entropy formula for general non-extremal asymptotically flat black holes in four dimensions can be understood in terms of an underlying conformal symmetry. A recent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-14 Marco Baggio , Jan de Boer , Juan I. Jottar , Daniel R. Mayerson

We discuss a phase structure of compact QED in four dimensions by considering the theory as a perturbed topological model. In this scenario we use the singular configuration with an appropriate regularization, and so obtain the results…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Kentaroh Yoshida