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We introduce a large class of conformally-covariant differential operators and a crossing equation that they obey. Together, these tools dramatically simplify calculations involving operators with spin in conformal field theories. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , David Simmons-Duffin

We apply the numerical bootstrap program to chiral operators in four-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ SCFTs. In the first part of this work we study four-point functions in which all fields have the same conformal dimension. We give special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-12 Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo

Conformal blocks are the central ingredient of the conformal bootstrap programme. We elaborate on our recent observation that uncovered a relation with wave functions of an integrable Calogero-Sutherland Hamiltonian in order to develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 Mikhail Isachenkov , Volker Schomerus

We formulate a set of general rules for computing $d$-dimensional four-point global conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in the context of the embedding space operator product expansion formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

The Silicon Dangling Bond (SiDB) logic platform, an emerging computational beyond-CMOS nanotechnology, is a promising competitor due to its ability to achieve integration density and clock speed values that are several orders of magnitude…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Jan Drewniok , Marcel Walter , Robert Wille

Recent programs on conformal bootstrap suggest an empirical relationship between the existence of non-trivial conformal field theories and non-trivial features such as a kink in the unitarity bound of conformal dimensions in the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Nakayama

Symmetries play a central role in quantum many-body physics, yet uncovering them systematically remains challenging. We introduce a bootstrap framework designed to reconstruct the representation theory of hidden finite group symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Chen Bai , Zihan Zhou , Bastien Lapierre , Shinsei Ryu

This paper presents a MATLAB toolbox for computing the conformal mapping from a given polygonal multiply connected domain onto a circular multiply connected domain and its inverse. The toolbox can be used for multiply connected domains with…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Mohamed M. S. Nasser

We present explicit recursive relations for the four-point superconformal block functions that are essentially particular contributions of the given conformal class to the four-point correlation function. The approach is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Belavin

We give the first approximation algorithm for mixed packing and covering semidefinite programs (SDPs) with polylogarithmic dependence on width. Mixed packing and covering SDPs constitute a fundamental algorithmic primitive with recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Jerry Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Kevin Tian

The conformal bootstrap is applied to percolation and dilute self-avoiding polymers, two theories with Virasoro central charge $c=0$ in two dimensions. In both cases we propose a spectrum of operators motivated by Virasoro symmetry which is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-03 Andre LeClair , Joshua Squires

Obstacle avoidance of polytopic obstacles by polytopic robots is a challenging problem in optimization-based control and trajectory planning. Many existing methods rely on smooth geometric approximations, such as hyperspheres or ellipsoids,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shuo Liu , Zhe Huang , Calin A. Belta

One of the most striking successes of the lightcone bootstrap has been the perturbative computation of the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients of double-twist operators with large spin. It is expected that similar results for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Apratim Kaviraj , Jeremy A. Mann , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Volker Schomerus

In quantum embedding theories, a quantum many-body system is divided into localized clusters of sites which are treated with an accurate `high-level' theory and glued together self-consistently by a less accurate `low-level' theory at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Yuehaw Khoo , Michael Lindsey

Roundoff errors cannot be avoided when implementing numerical programs with finite precision. The ability to reason about rounding is especially important if one wants to explore a range of potential representations, for instance for FPGAs…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Victor Magron , George Constantinides , Alastair Donaldson

This is a survey paper of our current research on the theory of partial differential equations in conformal geometry. Our intention is to describe some of our current works in a rather brief and expository fashion. We are not giving a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-04-25 Sun-Yung A. Chang , Jie Qing , Paul Yang

A configuration of $n$ unit-cube-shaped \textit{modules} (or \textit{robots}) is a lattice-aligned placement of the $n$ modules so that their union is face-connected. The reconfiguration problem aims at finding a sequence of moves that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hugo Akitaya , Matias Korman , Frederick Stock

For SCFTs with an $SU(2)$ R-symmetry, we determine the superconformal blocks that contribute to the four-point correlation function of a priori distinct half-BPS superconformal primaries as an expansion in terms of the relevant bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Florent Baume , Michael Fuchs , Craig Lawrie

We study various aspects of half-BPS surface defect operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For defects on generic points on the moduli space we use superconformal symmetry to fix the form of one-point and two-point functions of half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Adolfo Holguin , Hiroki Kawai

We construct a crossing symmetric basis for conformal four-point functions in momentum space by requiring consistent factorization. Just as scattering amplitudes factorize when the intermediate particle is on-shell, non-analytic parts of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Hiroshi Isono , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu