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In celestial holography, four-dimensional scattering amplitudes are considered as two-dimensional conformal correlators of a putative two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The simplest way of converting momentum space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Wei Fan , Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

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

The n-point functions of any Conformal Field Theory (CFT) in $d$ dimensions can always be interpreted as spatial restrictions of corresponding functions in a higher-dimensional CFT with dimension $d'> d$. In particular, when a four-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Ferdinando Gliozzi

We consider two $d \geq 2$ conformal field theories (CFTs) glued together along a codimension one conformal interface. The conformal anomaly of such a system contains both bulk and interface contributions. In a curved-space setup, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Christopher P. Herzog , Kuo-Wei Huang , Dmitri V. Vassilevich

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

The dilaton low-energy effective field theory (EFT) of an emergent light scalar is probed in the paradigm of strongly coupled near-conformal gauge theories. These studies are motivated by models which exhibit small $\beta$-functions near…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-01-29 Zoltan Fodor , Kieran Holland , Julius Kuti , Chik Him Wong

In these notes we explain how the CFT description of random matrix models can be used to perform actual calculations. Our basic example is the hermitian matrix model, reformulated as a conformal invariant theory of free fermions. We give an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan K. Kostov

We determine 5d $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs originating from 6d $(E_n,E_m)$ conformal matter theories with $n\neq m$ by circle reduction and mass deformations. The marginal geometries are constructed and we derive their combined fiber diagrams…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Max Hubner

We construct fermionic conformal field theories (CFTs) whose spectra are characterized by quantum stabilizer codes. We exploit our construction to search for fermionic CFTs with supersymmetry by focusing on quantum stabilizer codes of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Kohki Kawabata , Tatsuma Nishioka , Takuya Okuda

Conformal field theories (CFTs) in Euclidean signature satisfy well-accepted rules, such as conformal invariance and the convergent Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Nowadays, it is common to assume that CFT correlators exist and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-02 Jiaxin Qiao

We study the use of transformers to reconstruct the compositions of tensor products of two-dimensional rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) based on their low-energy spectra. The task is challenging due to its combinatorial nature. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Haotian Cao , Garrett Merz , Kyle Cranmer , Gary Shiu

We propose a graph-theoretic description to determine and characterize 5d superconformal field theories (SCFTs) that arise as circle reductions of 6d $\mathcal{N} = (1,0)$ SCFTs. Each 5d SCFT is captured by a graph, called a Combined Fiber…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Fabio Apruzzi , Craig Lawrie , Ling Lin , Sakura Schafer-Nameki , Yi-Nan Wang

In this paper, we present a complete proof of the so-called First On-Shell Theorem that determines dynamical content of the unfolded equations for free symmetric massless fields of arbitrary integer spin in any dimension and arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-21 A. S. Bychkov , K. A. Ushakov , M. A. Vasiliev

We present a general study of 3-point functions of conformal field theory (CFT) in momentum space, following a reconstruction method for tensor correlators, based on the solution of the conformal Ward identities (CWIs), introduced in recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-05 Claudio Coriano , Matteo Maria Maglio

We consider possible conformal field theory (CFT) descriptions of the various inertial ranges that exist in $2d$ duality invariant Magnetohydrodynamics. Such models arise as effective theories of dyonic plasmas in 3 dimensions in which all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 O. Coceal , W. A. Sabra , S. Thomas

We investigate the thermal properties of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric scalar field theories with purely imaginary couplings. The free energy governs the asymptotic density of states, providing an effective measure of the number of degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Oleksandr Diatlyk , Andrei Katsevich , Fedor K. Popov

It is known that a large class of characters of 2d conformal field theories (CFTs) can be written in the form of a Nahm sum. In \cite{Zagier:2007knq}, D. Zagier identified a list of Nahm sum expressions that are modular functions under a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 Dongmin Gang , Heeyeon Kim , Byoungyoon Park , Spencer Stubbs

Celestial diamonds encode the global conformal multiplets of the conformally soft sector, elucidating the role of soft theorems, symmetry generators and Goldstone modes. Upon adding supersymmetry they stack into a pyramid. Here we treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Yorgo Pano , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrea Puhm

Any N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) in four dimensions has a sector of operators related to a two-dimensional chiral algebra containing a Virasoro sub-algebra. Moreover, there are well-known examples of isolated SCFTs whose chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

The basic ingredient of CCFT holography is to regard four-dimensional amplitudes describing conformal wave packets as two-dimensional conformal correlation functions of the operators associated to external particles. By construction, these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Angelos Fotopoulos , Tomasz R. Taylor