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Recently, the conformal-bootstrap has been successfully used to obtain generic bounds on the spectrum and OPE coefficients of unitary conformal field theories. In practice, these bounds are obtained by assuming the existence of a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Micha Berkooz , Ran Yacoby , Amir Zait

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

In large part, the future utility of modern numerical conformal bootstrap depends on its ability to accurately predict the existence of hitherto unknown non-trivial conformal field theories (CFTs). Here we investigate the extent to which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Matthew T. Dowens , Chris A. Hooley

We consider holographic CFTs and study their large $N$ expansion. We use Polyakov-Mellin bootstrap to extract the CFT data of all operators, including scalars, till $O(1/N^4)$. We add a contact term in Mellin space, which corresponds to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Kausik Ghosh

We explore constraints on (1+1)$d$ unitary conformal field theory with an internal $\mathbb{Z}_N$ global symmetry, by bounding the lightest symmetry-preserving scalar primary operator using the modular bootstrap. Among the other constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

We compute anomalous dimensions of higher spin operators in Conformal Field Theory at arbitrary space-time dimension by using the OPE inversion formula of \cite{Caron-Huot:2017vep}, both from the position space representation as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Carlos Cardona , Kallol Sen

This paper explores the numerical conformal bootstrap in general spacetime dimensions through the lens of a distinct category of analytic functionals, previously employed in two-dimensional studies. We extend the application of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Kausik Ghosh , Zechuan Zheng

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap in two dimensions to search for finite, closed sub-algebras of the operator product expansion (OPE), without assuming unitarity. We find the minimal models as special cases, as well as additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ilya Esterlis , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , David Ramirez

In this note we report an improved determination of the scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the 3d Ising model using the conformal bootstrap. We also show how this data can be used as input to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-04 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland , Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We use the numerical bootstrap to study conformal line defects with $O(2)$ global symmetry. Our results are very general and capture in particular conformal line defects originating from bulk CFTs with a continuous global symmetry, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Edoardo Lauria , Pedro Liendo , Philine van Vliet

We compute, using the method of large spin perturbation theory, the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients of all leading twist operators in the critical $ O(N) $ model, to fourth order in the $ \epsilon $-expansion. This is done fully…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

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 review the recent developments in the study of conformal field theories in generic space time dimensions using the methods of the conformal bootstrap, in its analytic aspect. These techniques are based solely on symmetries, in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Giulia Fardelli

We use the recently developed framework of the Mellin bootstrap to study perturbatively free scalar CFTs in arbitrary dimensions. This approach uses the crossing-symmetric Mellin space formulation of correlation functions to generate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-18 John Golden , Daniel R. Mayerson

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, with a focus on the Ising model in various dimensions. We show that an analytic approach to the bootstrap is feasible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

Conformal field theories that exhibit spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry (a moduli space of vacua) must satisfy a set of bootstrap constraints, involving the usual data (scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients) as well as new data…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Gabriel Cuomo , Leonardo Rastelli , Adar Sharon

We develop an algebraic approach to the analytic bootstrap in CFTs. By acting with the Casimir operator on the crossing equation we map the problem of doing large spin sums to any desired order to the problem of solving a set of recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 Luis F. Alday , Alexander Zhiboedov

We apply the methods of modern analytic bootstrap to the critical $O(N)$ model in a $1/N$ expansion. At infinite $N$ the model possesses higher spin symmetry which is weakly broken as we turn on $1/N$. By studying consistency conditions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Luis F. Alday , Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

The recent emergence of the modern conformal bootstrap method for the study of conformal field theories (CFTs) has enabled the revisiting of old problems in classical critical phenomena described by three-dimensional CFTs. The study of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 3D conformal field theories with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ or parity symmetry, assuming a single relevant scalar operator $\epsilon$ that is invariant under the symmetry. When there is additionally a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland