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Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be recast as correlators of conformal primary operators in a putative holographic CFT$_d$ by working in a basis of boost eigenstates instead of momentum eigenstates. It has been shown previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Prahar Mitra

We consider previously derived upper and lower bounds on the number of operators in a window of scaling dimensions $[\Delta - \delta,\Delta + \delta]$ at asymptotically large $\Delta$ in 2d unitary modular invariant CFTs. These bounds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-17 Baur Mukhametzhanov , Sridip Pal

Modular invariance imposes rigid constrains on the partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories. Many fundamental results follow strictly from modular invariance, giving rise to the numerical modular bootstrap program.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Anatoly Dymarsky , Alfred Shapere

We derive a bound on the conformal dimensions of the lightest few states in general unitary 2d conformal field theories with discrete spectra using modular invariance, including CFTs with chiral currents. We derive a bound on the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-04 Joshua D. Qualls

In this paper, we prove that the "conformal collider bounds" originally proposed by Hofman and Maldacena hold for any unitary parity-preserving conformal field theory (CFT) with a unique stress tensor in spacetime dimensions larger than 2.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-13 Diego M. Hofman , Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland , Fernando Rejon-Barrera

We derive new constraints on the spectrum of two-dimensional conformal field theories with central charge $c>1.$ Employing the pillow representation of the four point correlator of identical scalars with dimension $\Delta_{\mathcal{O}}$ and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-18 Mert Besken

We review the effective field theory (EFT) bootstrap by formulating it as an infinite-dimensional semidefinite program (SDP), built from the crossing symmetric sum rules and the S-matrix primal ansatz. We apply the program to study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Yue-Zhou Li

We use analytic conformal bootstrap methods to determine the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients for large spin operators in general conformal field theories in four dimensions containing a scalar operator of conformal dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

We derive Cardy-like formulas for the growth of operators in different sectors of unitary $2$ dimensional CFT in the presence of topological defect lines by putting an upper and lower bound on the number of states with scaling dimension in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Sridip Pal , Zhengdi Sun

We derive general bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. In any CFT containing a scalar primary phi of dimension d we show that crossing symmetry of <phi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-09 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We incorporate the microscopic assumptions that lead to a certain generalization of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem for one-dimensional spin chains into the conformal bootstrap. Our approach accounts for the "LSM anomaly" possessed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-31 Ryan A. Lanzetta , Lukasz Fidkowski

Modular invariance is known to constrain the spectrum of 2d conformal field theories. We investigate this constraint systematically, using the linear functional method to put new improved upper bounds on the lowest gap in the spectrum. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel Friedan , Christoph A. Keller

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with an abelian $U(1)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap approach. We obtain numerical bounds on the scaling dimensions of low-lying operators, the stress-tensor central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Andrea Manenti , Marten Reehorst , Alessandro Vichi

We study the conformal bootstrap in fractional space-time dimensions, obtaining rigorous bounds on operator dimensions. Our results show strong evidence that there is a family of unitary CFTs connecting the 2D Ising model, the 3D Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 S. El-Showk , M. Paulos , D. Poland , S. Rychkov , D. Simmons-Duffin , A. Vichi

We implement methods that efficiently impose integrality -- i.e., the condition that the coefficients of characters in the partition function must be integers -- into numerical modular bootstrap. We demonstrate the method with a number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-21 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Wei Li

We show that for a unitary modular invariant 2D CFT with central charge $c>1$ and having a nonzero twist gap in the spectrum of Virasoro primaries, for sufficiently large spin $J$, there always exist spin-$J$ operators with twist falling in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Sridip Pal , Jiaxin Qiao

We study two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with boundaries via the conformal bootstrap. We derive a positive semi-definite program from crossing symmetry of three observables: the annulus partition function, the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Marco Meineri , Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan

We study scalar conformal field theories whose large $N$ spectrum is fixed by the operator dimensions of either Ising model or Lee-Yang edge singularity. Using numerical bootstrap to study CFTs with $S_N\otimes Z_2$ symmetry, we find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We consider constraints on the S-matrix of any gapped, Lorentz invariant quantum field theory in 1 + 1 dimensions due to crossing symmetry and unitarity. In this way we establish rigorous bounds on the cubic couplings of a given theory with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Miguel F. Paulos , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

The modular bootstrap program for 2d CFTs could be seen as a systematic exploration of the physical consequences of consistency conditions at the elliptic points and at the cusp of their toruspartition function. The study at $\tau=i$, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-28 Ferdinando Gliozzi