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Critical statistical mechanics and Conformal Field Theory (CFT) are conjecturally connected since the seminal work of Beliavin, Polyakov, and Zamolodchikov [BPZ84a]. Both exhibit exactly solvable structures in two dimensions. A…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Clément Hongler , Fredrik Johansson Viklund , Kalle Kytölä

We study complex CFTs describing fixed points of the two-dimensional $Q$-state Potts model with $Q>4$. Their existence is closely related to the weak first-order phase transition and walking RG behavior present in the real Potts model at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-28 Victor Gorbenko , Slava Rychkov , Bernardo Zan

We consider CFT states defined by adding nonlocal multi-trace sources to the Euclidean path integral defining the vacuum state. For holographic theories, we argue that these states correspond to states in the gravitational theory with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-07 Felix M. Haehl , Eric Mintun , Jason Pollack , Antony J. Speranza , Mark Van Raamsdonk

Conformal symmetry is broken in physical QCD; nevertheless, one can use conformal symmetry as a template, systematically correcting for its nonzero $\beta$ function as well as higher-twist effects. For example, commensurate scale relations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Stanley J. Brodsky

We study operators in Schr\"odinger invariant field theories (non-relativistic conformal field theories or NRCFTs) with large charge (particle number) and spin. Via the state-operator correspondence for NRCFTs, such operators correspond to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 S. M. Kravec , Sridip Pal

We demonstrate that simple feed-forward neural networks (NNs) can accurately compute correlation functions of conformal field theories (CFTs) on a line. Strikingly, by optimising a NN solely on crossing symmetry and providing only the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Kausik Ghosh , Sidhaarth Kumar , Vasilis Niarchos , Andreas Stergiou

We analytically solve the conformal bootstrap equations in the Regge limit for large N conformal field theories. For theories with a parametrically large gap, the amplitude is dominated by spin-2 exchanges and we show how the crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland

In the context of the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence, we investigate the Higgs branch CFT$_2$. Witten showed that states localised near the small instanton singularity can be described in terms of vector multiplet variables. This theory has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-08 Olof Ohlsson Sax , Alessandro Sfondrini , Bogdan Stefanski

We study logarithmic conformal field theory (LogCFT) in four dimensions using conformal bootstrap techniques in the large spin limit. We focus on the constraints imposed by conformal symmetry on the four point function of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey

Conformal field theories (CFTs) in Euclidean signature satisfy well-accepted rules, such as conformal invariance and the convergent Euclidean operator product expansion (OPE). Nowadays, it is common to assume that CFT correlators exist and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-02 Jiaxin Qiao

We study analytically the constraints of the conformal bootstrap on the low-lying spectrum of operators in field theories with global conformal symmetry in one and two spacetime dimensions. We introduce a new class of linear functionals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Dalimil Mazac

The renormalization of composite operators is a fundamental aspect of quantum field theory, relevant for the description of phase transitions and high energy phenomenology. We calculate the anomalous dimensions of a large set of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

The Operator Product Expansion is a useful tool to represent correlation functions. In this note we extend Conformal Regge theory to provide an exact OPE representation of Lorenzian four-point correlators in conformal field theory, valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Simon Caron-Huot , Joshua Sandor

It is shown that time-ordered correlation functions of a unitary CFT$_2$ in 2D Minkowski space admit a single-valued, conformally-invariant extension to the Lorentzian signature torus provided that the $S^1\times S^1$ spatial and temporal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger

Two dimensional conformal field theories with central charge one are discussed. After a short review of theories based on one free boson, a different CFT is described, which is obtained as a limit of minimal models.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 I. Runkel , G. M. T. Watts

We consider the most general effective field theory (EFT) Lagrangian with scalar fields and derivatives, and renormalise it to substantially higher loop order than existing results in the literature. EFT Lagrangians have phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Johan Henriksson , Franz Herzog , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

We propose a method to analytically solve the bootstrap equation for two point functions in boundary CFT. We consider the analytic structure of the correlator in Lorentzian signature and in particular the discontinuity of bulk and boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-14 Agnese Bissi , Tobias Hansen , Alexander Söderberg

Using an effective field theory (EFT) formalism for forward scattering, we reconsider the factorization of $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes in the Regge limit. Expanding the amplitude in gauge invariant operators labelled by the number of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-14 Ian Moult , Sanjay Raman , Gregory Ridgway , Iain W. Stewart

We study three-dimensional conformal field theories with a large-$N$ limit. Leveraging the framework of slightly broken higher-spin symmetry, we bootstrap correlation functions between the single-trace, local operators and straight,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Gwenaël Ferrando , Amit Sever , Elior Urisman

We analyze the dynamical response functions of strongly interacting quantum critical states described by conformal field theories (CFTs). We construct a self-consistent holographic model that incorporates the relevant scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Robert C. Myers , Todd Sierens , William Witczak-Krempa