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We study the $N=3$ case of the $CP^{N-1}$ model, which is a field theory of $N$ complex scalars in $3d$ coupled to an Abelian gauge field with $SU(N) \times U(1)$ global symmetry. Recent evidence suggests the $N=2$ theory is not critical,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-10 Shai M. Chester , Alessandro Piazza , Marten Reehorst , Ning Su

Yang-Mills theory in AdS$_{4}$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions is expected to undergo a transition as the AdS radius varies, since the boundary data is incompatible with confinement in flat space. Various mechanisms have been proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Marco Meineri , Alessandro Piazza , Marco Serone , Alessandro Vichi

For QFTs in AdS the boundary correlation functions remain conformal even if the bulk theory has a scale. This allows one to constrain RG flows with numerical conformal bootstrap methods. We apply this idea to flows between two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-15 António Antunes , Edoardo Lauria , Balt C. van Rees

We study 3d CFTs with an $O(N)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap for a system of mixed correlators. Specifically, we consider all nonvanishing scalar four-point functions containing the lowest dimension $O(N)$ vector $\phi_i$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-30 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

Various observables in compact CFTs are required to obey positivity, discreteness, and integrality. Positivity forms the crux of the conformal bootstrap, but understanding of the abstract implications of discreteness and integrality for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Justin Kaidi , Eric Perlmutter

In view of its physical importance in predicting the order of chiral phase transitions in QCD and frustrated spin systems, we perform the conformal bootstrap program of $O(n)\times O(2)$-symmetric conformal field theories in $d=3$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

We study correlators of insertions along 1/2 BPS line defects in the holographic dual to type IIB string theory in $AdS_3 \times S^3 \times T^4$ with mixed Ramond-Ramond and Neveu Schwarz-Neveu Schwarz three-form flux. These defects break…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Gabriel Bliard , Diego H. Correa , Martín Lagares , Ignacio Salazar Landea

We present the full form of a four-point correlation function of large BPS operators in planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills to any loop order. We do this by following a bootstrap philosophy based on three simple axioms pertaining to (i) the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Frank Coronado

We study the conformal bootstrap for systems of correlators involving non-identical operators. The constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for such mixed correlators can be phrased in the language of semidefinite programming. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral stress-tensor multiplet in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at six, seven, and eight loops, using boundary data from the form factor operator product expansion.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-21 Lance J. Dixon , Omer Gurdogan , Andrew J. McLeod , Matthias Wilhelm

We bootstrap tree-level supergravity four-point correlators on AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ with one external half-BPS double-particle operator and three half-BPS single-particle operators. Our only input is the consistency of the operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo , Joao Vilas Boas

We review the effective field theory (EFT) bootstrap by formulating it as an infinite-dimensional semidefinite program (SDP), built from the crossing symmetric sum rules and the S-matrix primal ansatz. We apply the program to study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Yue-Zhou Li

In this work, we bootstrap the 4-point correlators on the 1D celestial circle using 3D symmetries in the Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena theory as constraints. We find that the dual inversion property is strong enough to replace the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-16 Yi-Xiao Tao

We study the constraints imposed by superconformal symmetry, crossing symmetry, and unitarity for theories with four supercharges in spacetime dimension $2\leq d\leq 4$. We show how superconformal algebras with four Poincar\'{e}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Nikolay Bobev , Sheer El-Showk , Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

A common feature of tree-level holography is that a correlator in one theory can serve as a generating function for correlators in another theory with less continuous symmetry. This is the case for a family of 4d CFTs with eight…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Connor Behan

We develop bootstrap methods for mixed heavy-light four-point correlators $\langle GGOO\rangle$ in $\mathcal N=4$ super-Yang--Mills theory at large $N$, where $O\equiv {\cal O}_2$ is the chiral primary operator in the stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Song He , Canxin Shi , Yichao Tang , Congkao Wen

In a recent paper, we proposed closed-form expressions for the superconformal indices of the (A_1, A_{2n-3}) and (A_1, D_{2n}) Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in the Schur limit. Following up on our results, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-06 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

We use analytic conformal bootstrap methods to determine the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients for large spin operators in general conformal field theories in four dimensions containing a scalar operator of conformal dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

We study the moduli dependence of the chiral ring in N = (4,4) superconformal field theories, with special emphasis on those CFTs that are dual to type IIB string theory on AdS3xS3xX4. The chiral primary operators are sections of vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-27 Jan de Boer , Jan Manschot , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Erik Verlinde

We conjecture a closed-form expression for the Schur limit of the superconformal index of two infinite series of Argyres-Douglas (AD) superconformal field theories (SCFTs): the (A_1,A_{2n-3}) and the (A_1,D_{2n}) theories. While these SCFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka