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We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of stress tensors in parity-preserving 3d CFTs. To set up the bootstrap equations, we analyze the constraints of conformal symmetry, permutation symmetry, and conservation on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Anatoly Dymarsky , Filip Kos , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We describe how to implement the conformal bootstrap program in the context of the embedding space OPE formalism introduced in previous work. To take maximal advantage of the known properties of the scalar conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

We construct a crossing symmetric basis for conformal four-point functions in momentum space by requiring consistent factorization. Just as scattering amplitudes factorize when the intermediate particle is on-shell, non-analytic parts of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Hiroshi Isono , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

We systematically explore the construction of Nielsen's circuit complexity to a non-Lorentzian field theory keeping in mind its connection with flat holography. We consider a 2d boundary field theory dual to 3d asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Poulami Nandi

Three-dimensional theories with cubic symmetry are studied using the machinery of the numerical conformal bootstrap. Crossing symmetry and unitarity are imposed on a set of mixed correlators, and various aspects of the parameter space are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We consider the four-point correlator of the stress tensor multiplet in N=4 SYM. We construct all solutions consistent with crossing symmetry in the limit of large central charge c ~ N^2 and large g^2 N. While we find an infinite tower of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

A new bootstrap equation in 2-dimensional conformal field theory is derived starting from the momentum-space representation of the correlation functions. Since Wightman functions are not crossing-symmetric, the analyticity properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-28 Marc Gillioz

Two dimensional field theories invariant under the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group are conjectured to be dual to asymptotically flat spacetimes in three dimensions. In this paper, we continue our investigations of the modular properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-19 Arjun Bagchi , Poulami Nandi , Amartya Saha , Zodinmawia

We describe examples of drastic truncations of conformal bootstrap equations encoding much more information than that obtained by a direct numerical approach. A three-term truncation of the four point function of a free scalar in any space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ferdinando Gliozzi

We generalise the form factor bootstrap approach to integrable field theories with U(1) symmetry to derive matrix elements of composite branch-point twist fields associated with symmetry resolved entanglement entropies. The bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-30 David X. Horvath , Luca Capizzi , Pasquale Calabrese

This paper focuses on the analysis of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal theories in the presence of a defect from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. We will concentrate first on the case of codimension one, where the defect is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli

It has long been clear that the conformal bootstrap is associated with a rich geometry. In this paper we undertake a systematic exploration of this geometric structure as an object of study in its own right. We study conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Shu-Heng Shao

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

Under the assumption that degenerate fields exist, diagonal CFTs such as Liouville theory can be solved analytically using the conformal bootstrap method. Here we generalize this approach to non-diagonal CFTs, i.e. CFTs whose primary fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Santiago Migliaccio , Sylvain Ribault

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

In the realm of contemporary physics, the bootstrap method is typically associated with an optimization-based approach to problem-solving. This method leverages our understanding of a specific physical problem, which is used as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Zechuan Zheng

We investigate quantum field theories in two dimensions (2d) with an underlying Bondi-van der Burgh-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry augmented by $\mathfrak{u}(1)$ currents. These field theories are expected to holographically capture features…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Arjun Bagchi , Ritankar Chatterjee , Rishabh Kaushik , Sanchari Pal , Max Riegler , Debmalya Sarkar

In this work we report on a new bootstrap method for quantum mechanical problems that closely mirrors the setup from conformal field theory (CFT). We use the equations of motion to develop an analogue of the conformal block expansion for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Yuan Xin