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We show that the four-point functions in conformal field theory are defined as distributions on the boundary of the region of convergence of the conformal block expansion. The conformal block expansion converges in the sense of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Petr Kravchuk , Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

Conformal field theory (CFT) in two dimensions provide a rich source of subfactors. The fact that there are so many subfactors coming from CFT have led people to conjecture that perhaps all finite depth subfactors are related to CFT. In…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Feng Xu

Conformal Freeze-in (COFI) scenario postulates a dark sector described by a conformal field theory (CFT) at energies above the ``gap scale" in the keV$-$MeV range. At the gap scale, the dark CFT undergoes confinement, and one of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-12 Lillian Luo , Maxim Perelstein

Many neural nets appear to represent data as linear combinations of "feature vectors." Algorithms for discovering these vectors have seen impressive recent success. However, we argue that this success is incomplete without an understanding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Martin Wattenberg , Fernanda B. Viégas

We exhibit a complete set of identities for CNOT, the symmetric monoidal category generated by the controlled-not gate, the swap gate, and the computational ancillae. We prove that CNOT is a discrete inverse category. Moreover, we prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Robin Cockett , Cole Comfort , Priyaa Srinivasan

Entanglement is resolved in conformal field theory (CFT) with respect to conformal families to all orders in the UV cutoff. To leading order, symmetry-resolved entanglement is connected to the quantum dimension of a conformal family, while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Christian Northe

Correlation functions in Euclidean conformal field theories in four dimensions are expressed as representations of the conformal group $SL(2,\H)$, $\H$ being the field of quaternions, on the configuration space of points. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 Aritra Pal , Koushik Ray

We present recent progress in theory of local conformal nets which is an operator algebraic approach to study chiral conformal field theory. We emphasize representation theoretic aspects and relations to theory of vertex operator algebras…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-01 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi

In this paper we develope a categorical theory of relations and use this formulation to define the notion of quantization for relations. Categories of relations are defined in the context of symmetric monoidal categories. They are shown to…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Per K. Jakobsen , Valentin Lychagin

Sigma models effectively describe ordered phases of systems with spontaneously broken symmetries. At low energies, field configurations fall into solitonic sectors, which are homotopically distinct classes of maps. Depending on context,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 J. P. Ang , Abhishodh Prakash

Convergence and analytic extension are of fundamental importance in the mathematical construction and study of conformal field theory. We review some main convergence results, conjectures and problems in the construction and study of…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Yi-Zhi Huang

We explore some consequences of the crossing symmetry for defect conformal field theories, focusing on codimension one defects like flat boundaries or interfaces. We study surface transitions of the 3d Ising and other O(N) models through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-29 F. Gliozzi , P. Liendo , M. Meineri , A. Rago

This paper introduces multimodal conformal regression. Traditionally confined to scenarios with solely numerical input features, conformal prediction is now extended to multimodal contexts through our methodology, which harnesses internal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Alexis Bose , Jonathan Ethier , Paul Guinand

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

By a conformal string in Euclidean space is meant a closed critical curve with non-constant conformal curvatures of the conformal arclength functional. We prove that (1) the set of conformal classes of conformal strings is in 1-1…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Emilio Musso , Lorenzo Nicolodi

Passive linear networks are used in a wide variety of engineering applications, but the best studied are electrical circuits made of resistors, inductors and capacitors. We describe a category where a morphism is a circuit of this sort with…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2018-11-22 John C. Baez , Brendan Fong

Although it has been a well-known fact, for more than two decades, that category theory is needed for the study of topological orders, it is still a non-trivial challenge for students and working physicists to master the abstract language…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-01 Liang Kong , Zhi-Hao Zhang

Various relations between conformal quantum field theories in one, two and four dimensions are explored. The intention is to obtain a better understanding of 4D CFT with the help of methods from lower dimensional CFT.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Marcel Bischoff , Daniel Meise , Karl-Henning Rehren , Ingo Wagner

Categories of polymorphic lenses in computer science, and of open games in compositional game theory, have a curious structure that is reminiscent of compact closed categories, but differs in some crucial ways. Specifically they have a…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Jules Hedges

An equivalent description of a symmetric monoidal category is introduced in which, instead of separate associator and commutator isomorphisms satisfying the usual coherence axioms, we simply have associo-commutator isomorphisms satisfying…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Josep Elgueta