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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-16 Pedro Liendo , Israel Ramirez , Jihye Seo

We argue that all consistent 4D quantum field theories obey a spacetime-averaged weak energy inequality $\langle T^{00} \rangle \ge -C/L^4$, where $L$ is the size of the smearing region, and $C$ is a positive constant that depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

We introduce the impact-parameter representation for conformal field theory correlators of the form A ~ < O_1 O_2 O_1 O_2 >. This representation is appropriate in the eikonal kinematical regime, and approximates the conformal partial-wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Lorenzo Cornalba , Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , Ricardo Schiappa

We revisit the calculation of spectral densities and heavy-heavy-light (HHL) operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients in three-dimensional conformal field theories using thermal one-point functions on $S^1 \times S^2$. A central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Ilija Burić , Francesco Mangialardi , Francesco Russo , Volker Schomerus , Alessandro Vichi

We explore the OPE of certain twist operators in symmetric product ($S_N$) orbifold CFTs, extending our previous work arXiv:1804.01562 to the case of $\mathcal{N}=(4,4)$ supersymmetry. We consider a class of twist operators related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Thomas de Beer , Benjamin A. Burrington , Ian T. Jardine , A. W. Peet

We study asymptotics of three point coefficients (light-light-heavy) and two point correlators in heavy states in unitary, compact $2$D CFTs. We prove an upper and lower bound on such quantities using numerically assisted Tauberian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Diptarka Das , Yuya Kusuki , Sridip Pal

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with an abelian $U(1)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap approach. We obtain numerical bounds on the scaling dimensions of low-lying operators, the stress-tensor central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Andrea Manenti , Marten Reehorst , Alessandro Vichi

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

We study higher spin tensor currents in quantum field theory. Scalar, spinor and vector fields admit unique "improved" currents of arbitrary spin, traceless and conserved. Off-criticality as well as at interacting fixed points conservation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Anselmi

We study correlation functions of a conserved spin-1 current $J_\mu$ in three dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs). We investigate the constraints imposed by permutation symmetry and current conservation on the form of three point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Anatoly Dymarsky , Joao Penedones , Emilio Trevisani , Alessandro Vichi

We compute three-point correlators between the stress-energy tensor and conserved currents of conformal field theories (CFTs) in 2+1 dimensions. We first compute the correlators in the large-flavor-number expansion of conformal gauge…

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The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

The coefficient $C_T$ of the conformal energy-momentum tensor two-point function is determined for the non-unitary scalar CFTs with four- and six-derivative kinetic terms. The results match those expected from large-$N$ calculations for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Hugh Osborn , Andreas Stergiou

By applying the stress-tensor-scalar operator product expansion (OPE) twice, we search for algebraic structures in $d=4$ conformal field theories (CFTs) with a pure Einstein gravity dual. We find that a rescaled mode operator defined by an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Kuo-Wei Huang

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) provides a universal framework for critical phenomena in the presence of boundaries. We determine BCFT data for the normal and ordinary boundary universality classes of the $1+1$-dimensional boundaries…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-24 Jiechao Feng , Taige Wang

It is shown explicitly that the correlation functions of Conformal Field Theories (CFT) with the logarithmic operators are invariant under the differential realization of Borel subalgebra of $\W_\infty$-algebra. This algebra is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Shafiekhani , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

In this work we address partial wave decompositions of thermal one-point functions in conformal field theories on $S^1 \times S^{d-1}$. With the help of Casimir differential equations we develop efficient algorithms to compute the relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-07 Ilija Buric , Francesco Russo , Volker Schomerus , Alessandro Vichi

In this paper, we prove that the "conformal collider bounds" originally proposed by Hofman and Maldacena hold for any unitary parity-preserving conformal field theory (CFT) with a unique stress tensor in spacetime dimensions larger than 2.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-13 Diego M. Hofman , Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland , Fernando Rejon-Barrera