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We calculate the interaction vertex of three BFKL states including the bare triple BFKL Pomeron coupling and discuss its relation with the correlation functions in two-dimensional conformal field theory. We construct the operator algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 G. P. Korchemsky

Let $X$ be a smooth, pointed Riemann surface of genus zero, and $G$ a simple, simply-connected complex algebraic group. Associated to a finite number of weights of $G$ and a level is a vector space called the space of conformal blocks, and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Michael Schuster

We implement the conformal bootstrap for N=4 superconformal field theories in four dimensions. Consistency of the four-point function of the stress-energy tensor multiplet imposes significant upper bounds for the scaling dimensions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-22 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

Algorithmic feature learners provide high-dimensional vector representations for non-matrix structured signals, like images, audio, text, and graphs. Low-dimensional projections derived from these representations can be used to explore…

Computation · Statistics 2022-02-02 Kris Sankaran

In this work we initiate the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We promote an abstract operator-algebraic viewpoint in order to unify the description of Lagrangian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-25 Christopher Beem , Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

Seven-point functions have two inequivalent topologies or channels. The comb channel has been computed previously and here we compute scalar conformal blocks in the extended snowflake channel in $d$ dimensions. Our computation relies on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Witold Skiba

We present a detailed analysis of a scalar conformal four-point function obtained from AdS/CFT correspondence. We study the scalar exchange graphs in AdS and discuss their analytic properties. Using methods of conformal partial wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Hoffmann , A. C. Petkou , W. Ruehl

We apply analytic conformal bootstrap ideas in Mellin space to conformal field theories with $O(N)$ symmetry and cubic anisotropy. We write down the conditions arising from the consistency between the operator product expansion and crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-12 Parijat Dey , Apratim Kaviraj , Aninda Sinha

Extending previous work on 2 -- and 3 -- point functions, we study the 4 -- point function and its conformal block structure in conformal quantum mechanics CFT$_1$, which realizes the SO(2,1) symmetry group. Conformal covariance is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 R. Jackiw , S. -Y. Pi

We study conformal conserved currents in arbitrary irreducible representations of the Lorentz group using the embedding space formalism. With the help of the operator product expansion, we first show that conservation conditions can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-10 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

We develop a framework for constructing superconformal blocks for correlators of general supermultiplets in theories with $\mathrm{SU}(m,m|2n)$ symmetry, such as four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ and $\mathcal{N} = 4$ conformal theories. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Tobias Hansen , Paul Heslop , Hector Puerta-Ramisa

We extend the definition of alpha space as introduced in [1] to two spacetime dimensions. We discuss how this can be used to find conformal block decompositions of known functions and how to easily recover several lightcone bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-03 Daniel Rutter , Balt C. van Rees

We review the recent developments in the study of conformal field theories in generic space time dimensions using the methods of the conformal bootstrap, in its analytic aspect. These techniques are based solely on symmetries, in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Giulia Fardelli

An analytic expression is proposed for the three-point function of the exponential fields in the Liouville field theory on a sphere. In the classical limit it coincides with what the classical Liouville theory predicts. Using this function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. B. Zamolodchikov , Al. B. Zamolodchikov

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 derive a minimal generating set of planar moves for diagrams of surfaces embedded in the four-space. These diagrams appear as the bonded classical unlink diagrams.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Michal Jablonowski

All types of 4-point spheric conformal blocks in both sectors of N=1 superconformal field theory are introduced and analyzed. The elliptic recurrence formulae are derived for all the types of blocks not previously discussed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Paulina Suchanek

We study spaces of conformal blocks associated with line bundles over elliptic curves, with coefficients in a vertex algebra. For vertex algebras satisfying suitable finiteness and semisimplicity conditions, which are met by all admissible…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Tomoyuki Arakawa , Jethro van Ekeren , Hao Li

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study boundary quantum electrodynamics, the theory of a four dimensional photon in a half space coupled to charged conformal matter on the boundary. This system is believed to be a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We consider an involutive automorphism of the conformal algebra and the resulting symmetric space. We display a new action of the conformal group which gives rise to this space. The space has an intrinsic symplectic structure, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre Wehner