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We present a study of the correlation function of three stress-energy tensors in $d$ dimensions using free field theory realizations, and compare them to the exact solutions of their conformal Ward identities (CWI's) obtained by a general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Claudio Coriano , Matteo Maria Maglio

The paper contributes to an ongoing effort to extend the conformal bootstrap beyond its traditional focus on systems of four-point correlation functions. Recently, it was demonstrated that semidefinite programming can be used to formulate a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-10 Sebastian Harris

In conformal field theory (CFT), the four-point correlator is a fundamental object that encodes CFT properties, constrains CFT structures, and connects to the gravitational scattering amplitude in holography theory. However, the four-point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-09 Chao Han , Liangdong Hu , W. Zhu , Yin-Chen He

We study the stress tensor four-point function for $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM with gauge group $G=SU(N)$, $SO(2N+1)$, $SO(2N)$ or $USp(2N)$ at large $N$. When $G=SU(N)$, the theory is dual to type IIB string theory on $AdS_5\times S^5$ with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-30 Luis F. Alday , Shai M. Chester , Tobias Hansen

We use a combination of perturbation theory, holography, supersymmetric localization, integrability, and numerical conformal bootstrap methods to constrain the energy-energy correlator in $\text{SU}(N_c)$ ${\mathcal N}=4$ SYM at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Ross Dempsey , Robin Karlsson , Silviu S. Pufu , Zahra Zahraee , Alexander Zhiboedov

We show that general parity-violating 3d conformal field theories show a double copy structure for momentum space 3-point functions of conserved currents, stress tensor and marginal scalar operators. Splitting up the CFT correlator into two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Sachin Jain , Renjan Rajan John , Abhishek Mehta , Amin A. Nizami , Adithya Suresh

We combine supersymmetric localization results with numerical bootstrap techniques to compute upper bounds on the low-lying CFT data of ${\cal N} = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory as a function of the complexified gauge coupling $\tau$. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Shai M. Chester , Ross Dempsey , Silviu S. Pufu

We study the behaviour of weak gravitational fields in the 6D Cascading DGP model using a bulk-based approach. To deal with the ambiguity in the thin limit of branes of codimension higher than one, we consider a specific regularization of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-18 Fulvio Sbisà , Kazuya Koyama

Conformal invariance powerfully constrains the critical behavior of two-dimensional classical systems with short-range interactions and the critical theories in two-dimensions are parametrized by a dimensional number, termed central charge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-15 Bo-Bo Wei

We propose a bootstrap program for CFTs near intersecting boundaries which form a co-dimension 2 edge. We describe the kinematical setup and show that bulk 1-pt functions and bulk-edge 2-pt functions depend on a non-trivial cross-ratio and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 António Antunes

We propose a numerical method to estimate one-point functions and the free-energy density of conformal field theories at finite temperature by solving the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger condition for the two-point functions of identical scalars. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-16 Julien Barrat , Enrico Marchetto , Alessio Miscioscia , Elli Pomoni

We implement the conformal bootstrap program for three-dimensional CFTs with $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry and find universal constraints on the spectrum of operator dimensions in these theories. By studying the bounds on the dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-11 Nikolay Bobev , Sheer El-Showk , Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

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

Using numerical bootstrap method, we determine the critical exponents of the minimal three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) to be $\eta_{\sigma}=0.168888(60)$ and $\omega=0.882(9)$. The model was argued in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-13 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

We estimate thermal one-point functions in the 3d Ising CFT using the operator product expansion (OPE) and the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) condition. Several operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of the theory are known from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Luca Iliesiu , Murat Koloğlu , David Simmons-Duffin

We provide a framework for generic 4D conformal bootstrap computations. It is based on the unification of two independent approaches, the covariant (embedding) formalism and the non-covariant (conformal frame) formalism. We construct their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-17 Gabriel Francisco Cuomo , Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk

We consider conformal perturbation theory for $n$-point functions on the sphere in general 2D CFTs to first order in coupling constant. We regulate perturbation integrals using canonical hard disk excisions of size $\epsilon$ around the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Benjamin A. Burrington , Ida G. Zadeh

We discuss kinematical features of conformal Carroll field theories in three dimensions (3d). Conformal extension of Carroll algebra is infinite dimensional even in 3d unlike its relativistic counterpart, and hence 3d Carroll CFTs share…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-01 Sudipta Dutta

We study the defect CFT associated with the half-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Using a perturbative bootstrap approach, we derive new analytical results for multipoint correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Daniele Artico , Julien Barrat , Giulia Peveri