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Warped conformal field theories (WCFTs) are two-dimensional non-relativistic systems, with a chiral scaling and shift symmetry. We present a detailed derivation of the near-extremal limit for their torus partition function. This limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Ankit Aggarwal , Alejandra Castro , Stéphane Detournay , Beatrix Mühlmann

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

WAdS/WCFT correspondence is an interesting realization of non-AdS holography. It relates 3-dimensional Warped-Anti-de Sitter (WAdS$_3$) spaces to a special class of 2-dimensional quantum field theory with chiral scaling symmetry that acts…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Gerónimo Caselli , Gaston Giribet , Andrés Goya

Two dimensional Warped Conformal Field Theories (WCFTs) may represent the simplest examples of field theories without Lorentz invariance that can be described holographically. As such they constitute a natural window into holography in non…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Diego M. Hofman , Blaise Rollier

Various aspects of warped conformal field theories (WCFTs) are studied including entanglement entropy on excited states, the Renyi entropy after a local quench, and out-of-time-order four-point functions. Assuming a large central charge and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-11 Luis Apolo , Song He , Wei Song , Jianfei Xu , Junjie Zheng

We study field theories in two spacetime dimensions invariant under a chiral scaling symmetry that acts only on right-movers. The local symmetries include one copy of the Virasoro algebra and a U(1) current algebra. This differs from the 2d…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Stephane Detournay , Thomas Hartman , Diego M. Hofman

We provide a simple holographic description for a warped conformal field theory (WCFT) at finite temperature. To this end we study the counterpart of warped anti-de Sitter black holes in three dimensions using a lower-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-06 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , Stéphane Detournay , Max Riegler

Conformal field theory on the half-space x>0 of Minkowski space-time ("boundary CFT") is analyzed from an algebraic point of view, clarifying in particular the algebraic structure of local algebras and the bi-localized charge structure of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-06 Roberto Longo , Karl-Henning Rehren

Warped conformal field theories in two dimensions are exotic nonlocal, Lorentz violating field theories characterized by Virasoro-Kac-Moody symmetries and have attracted a lot of attention as candidate boundary duals to warped AdS$_3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-19 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Gaurav Katoch , Shubho R. Roy

We explore $T \overline T$ deformations of Warped Conformal Field Theories (WCFTs) in two dimensions as examples of $T\overline T$ deformed non-relativistic quantum field theories. WCFTs are quantum field theories with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Rahul Poddar

We derive a universal formula for the asymptotic growth of the mean value of three-point coefficient for Warped Conformal Field Theories (WCFTs), and provide a holographic calculation in BTZ black holes. WCFTs are two dimensional quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Wei Song , Jianfei Xu

We study the asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional Warped Anti-de Sitter (WAdS) spaces in three-dimensional New Massive Gravity (NMG). For a specific choice of asymptotic boundary conditions, we find that the algebra of charges is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet

In the context of warped conformal field theories (WCFT), the derivation of the warped Cardy formula relies on the zero mode spectrum being bounded from below. Generically, this is not true for holographic WCFTs in "canonical" ensemble,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Ankit Aggarwal , Luca Ciambelli , Stéphane Detournay , Antoine Somerhausen

We revisit the thermodynamic properties of black holes with warped AdS$_3$ asymptotics in topologically massive gravity. The holographically dual theory, often referred to as warped CFT$_2$, exhibits a single copy of the Virasoro-Kac-Moody…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-04 Kiril Hristov , Riccardo Giordana Pozzi

Warped conformal field theories (WCFTs) are a novel class of non-relativistic theories. A simple, yet non-trivial, example of such theory is a massive Weyl fermion in $(1+1)$-dimensions, which we study in detail. We derive general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-23 Alejandra Castro , Diego M. Hofman , Gábor Sárosi

We study several aspects of holographic entanglement in two models known as flat$_3$/BMSFT and (W)AdS$_3$/WCFT. These are two examples of holography beyond AdS/CFT where the the boundary field theories are not Lorentz invariant but still…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-10 Luis Apolo , Hongliang Jiang , Wei Song , Yuan Zhong

The AdS/CFT correspondence identifies the coordinates of the conformal boundary of anti-de Sitter space with the coordinates of the conformal field theory. We generalize this identification to theories formulated in superspace. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hirosi Ooguri , J. Rahmfeld , Harlan Robins , Jonathan Tannenhauser

We construct classical theories for scalar fields in arbitrary Carroll spacetimes that are invariant under Carrollian diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations. When the local symmetries are gauge fixed these theories become Carrollian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Nishant Gupta , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

Various massive gravity theories in three dimensions are conjecturally dual to logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs). We summarise the status of these conjectures. LCFTs are characterised by the values of the central charges and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 Daniel Grumiller , Niklas Johansson , Thomas Zojer

We study the properties of 2+1d conformal field theories (CFTs) in a background magnetic field. Using generalized particle-vortex duality, we argue that in many cases of interest the theory becomes gapped, which allows us to make a number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Rufus Boyack , Luca V. Delacrétaz , Éric Dupuis , William Witczak-Krempa
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