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We study the classification of the gapped phases or massive renormalization group (RG) flows dual to the massless RG flows under changing the sign of the coupling constants. Whereas our formalism is based on combining Higgs- or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Yoshiki Fukusumi , Shuma Nakashiba

We investigate the topological defects in phenomenological models describing mixtures of charged condensates with commensurate electric charges. Such situations are expected to appear for example in liquid metallic deuterium. This is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-19 Julien Garaud , Egor Babaev

We investigate the formation of topological defects in the course of a dynamical phase transition with different boundary conditions in a ring from AdS/CFT correspondence. According to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, quenching the system across…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Zhi-Hong Li , Han-Qing Shi , Hai-Qing Zhang

We study two-dimensional spherical defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories. We argue that the Renormalization Group (RG) flows on such defects admit the existence of a decreasing entropy function. At the fixed points of the flow,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Tom Shachar , Ritam Sinha , Michael Smolkin

The bulk-boundary and a new bulk-defect correspondence principles are formulated using groupoid algebras. The new strategy relies on the observation that the groupoids of lattices with boundaries or defects display spaces of units with…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Emil Prodan

We consider line defects in d-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). The ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on Renormalization Group (RG) flows on such line defects. We show that the flow on line defects is consequently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 Gabriel Cuomo , Zohar Komargodski , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We discuss general aspects of renormalization group (RG) flows between two conformal fixed points in 4d with a broken continuous global symmetry in the UV. Every such RG flow can be described in terms of the dynamics of Nambu-Goldstone…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-06 Sandipan Kundu

In this letter we study renormalization group (RG) flows between 2d conformal field theories enjoying extended higher-spin $\mathcal{W}$-symmetry. We propose a new class of RG flows between the diagonal minimal models of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Federico Ambrosino , Tomáš Procházka

A general analysis of line defect renormalisation group (RG) flows in the $\varepsilon$ expansion below $d=4$ dimensions is undertaken. The defect beta function for general scalar-fermion bulk theories is computed to next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 William H. Pannell , Andreas Stergiou

We consider the topological defect lines commuting with the spectral flow and the $\mathcal{N}=(4,4)$ superconformal symmetry in two dimensional non-linear sigma models on K3. By studying their fusion with boundary states, we derive a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-04 Roberta Angius , Stefano Giaccari , Roberto Volpato

In this paper, we show that starting from a geodesic ball $\overline{B_{r_0}}(0)$ in $\mathbb{H}^n$, for $n\geq3$, with prescribed non-decreasing rotationally symmetric mean curvature and the fixed conformal class $[g_{\mathbb{S}^{n-1}}]$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Gang Li

We show how a large class of boundary RG flows in two-dimensional conformal field theories can be summarized in a single rule. This rule is a generalization of the 'absorption of the boundary spin'-principle of Affleck and Ludwig and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Stefan Fredenhagen

Defects play a central role in many contexts, from condensed matter to quantum gravity. The situations in which the bulk theory is conformal and the defect inherits part of this symmetry -- the so-called defect conformal field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-25 Luigi Castiglioni , Silvia Penati , Marcia Tenser , Diego Trancanelli

We study a class of renormalization group flows on line defects that can be described by a generalized free field with ordered planar contractions on the line. They are realized, for example, in large $N$ gauge theories with matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-18 Ivri Nagar , Amit Sever , De-liang Zhong

We extend the construction of the boundary states in Gepner models to the non-diagonal modular invariant theories, and derive the same supersymmetric conditions as the diagonal theories. We also investigate the relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Michihiro Naka , Masatoshi Nozaki

The bulk-boundary correspondence, which relates topological properties of a material in the bulk to the presence of robust modes localized on the edge, is at the core of the now mature field of topological wave physics. More recently, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Renaud Cote , Marc Pachebat , Antonin Coutant

We explore the RG flow between neighboring minimal CFT models with $W_3$ symmetry. After computing several classes of OPE structure constants we were able to find the matrices of anomalous dimensions for three classes of RG invariant sets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Hasmik Poghosyan , Rubik Poghossian

The behaviour of D2-branes on the quintic under complex structure deformations is analysed by combining Landau-Ginzburg techniques with methods from conformal field theory. It is shown that the boundary renormalisation group flow induced by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-05 Marco Baumgartl , Ilka Brunner , Matthias R. Gaberdiel

This is a continuation of the research in [16]. Let $(\overline{M},g_{-1})$ be a closed geodesic $r_0$-ball in the hyperbolic space $(\mathbb{H}^n,g_{-1})$. Let $m\neq1$ be a positive constant. In this paper, we show that for $n\geq3$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Gang Li

In a recent paper, Gorbenko and Zan [arXiv:2005.07708] observed that $O(n)$ symmetry alone does not protect the well-known renormalization group flow from the dilute to the dense phase of the two-dimensional $O(n)$ model under thermal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur