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We present a new approach to computing event shape distributions or, more precisely, charge flow correlations in a generic conformal field theory (CFT). These infrared finite observables are familiar from collider physics studies and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 A. V. Belitsky , S. Hohenegger , G. P. Korchemsky , E. Sokatchev , A. Zhiboedov

We study the kinematics of correlation functions of local and extended operators in a conformal field theory. We present a new method for constructing the tensor structures associated to primary operators in an arbitrary bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Edoardo Lauria , Marco Meineri , Emilio Trevisani

In this thesis we analyse three aspects of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). First, we consider correlation functions of descendant states in two-dimensional CFTs. We discuss a recursive formula to calculate them and provide a computer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-23 Matteo Broccoli

We discuss a correlation function factorization, which relates a three-point function to the square root of three two-point functions. This factorization is known to hold for certain scaling operators at the two-dimensional percolation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob J. H. Simmons , Peter Kleban

We discuss the structure of 2D conformal field theories (CFT) at central charge c=0 describing critical disordered systems, polymers and percolation. We construct a novel extension of the c=0 Virasoro algebra, characterized by a number b…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

The aim of this paper is to study three dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theories in twistor space. We formulate the conformal Ward identities and solve for two and three point Lorentzian Wightman functions. We found that the Helicity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Aswini Bala , Sachin Jain , Dhruva K. S. , Deep Mazumdar , Vibhor Singh

Defects in conformal field theory (CFT) are of significant theoretical and experimental importance. The presence of defects theoretically enriches the structure of the CFT, but at the same time, it makes it more challenging to study,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-04 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

We construct global observable algebras and global DHR morphisms for the Virasoro minimal models with central charge c(2,q), q odd. To this end, we pass {}from the irreducible highest weight modules to path representations, which involve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Andreas Recknagel

We consider the Carrollian conformal field theories involving scalar operators in the momentum representation. The momentum space Ward identities are explicitly solved to obtain the different branches of 2 and 3 point Carrollian conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Raffaele Marotta , Arvind Shekar , Mritunjay Verma

In celestial conformal field theory (CCFT), the 4d massless scalars are represented by 2d conformal operators with conformal dimensions $h=\bar{h}=(1+i\lambda)/2$. The Mellin transform of 4d massless scalar amplitudes gives the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Wei Fan

A key insight of the bootstrap approach to cosmological correlations is the fact that all correlators of slow-roll inflation can be reduced to a unique building block---the four-point function of conformally coupled scalars, arising from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniel Baumann , Carlos Duaso Pueyo , Austin Joyce , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

We discuss the geometrical connection between 2D conformal field theories, random walks on hyperbolic Riemann surfaces and knot theory. For the wide class of CFTs with monodromies being the discrete subgroups of SL(2,R), the determination…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Monastyrsky , Sergei Nechaev

We study the fusion of conformal interfaces in the c=1 conformal field theory. We uncover an elegant structure reminiscent of that of black holes in supersymmetric theories. The role of the BPS black holes is played by topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bachas , I. Brunner

Assuming the existence of a field theory in D dimensions dual to (D+1)-dimensional flat space, governed by the asymptotic symmetries of flat space, we make some preliminary remarks about the properties of this field theory. We review…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Arjun Bagchi , Rudranil Basu , Ashish Kakkar , Aditya Mehra

We demonstrate that for general conformal field theories (CFTs), the entanglement for small perturbations of the vacuum is organized in a novel holographic way. For spherical entangling regions in a constant time slice, perturbations in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-15 Jan de Boer , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers , Yasha Neiman

The Verlinde formula computes the dimension of certain vector spaces ("conformal blocks") associated to a Rational Conformal Field Theory. In this paper we show how this can be made rigorous for one particular such theory, the WZW model.…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 A. Beauville

Warped conformal field theory (WCFT) is a two dimensional quantum field theory whose local symmetry algebra consists of a Virasoro algebra and a U(1) Kac-Moody algebra. In this paper, we study correlation functions for primary operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-11 Wei Song , Jianfei Xu

Fuzzy sphere models conjecturally realize 3d CFTs in small systems of spinful fermions, but why they work so well is still not fully understood. Their Hamiltonians are built from electron density operators projected to the lowest Landau…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-06 Luisa Eck , Zhenghan Wang

Topological defect lines (TDLs) in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) are standard examples of generalized symmetries in quantum field theory. Integrable lattice incarnations of these TDLs, such as those provided by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Thiago Silva Tavares , Madhav Sinha , Linnea Grans-Samuelsson , Ananda Roy , Hubert Saleur

The symmetry data of a $d$-dimensional quantum field theory (QFT) can often be captured in terms of a higher-dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In top down (i.e., stringy) realizations of this structure, the QFT in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-23 Mirjam Cvetič , Ron Donagi , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Ethan Torres