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We derive simple bootstrap bounds on correlation functions of the BFSS matrix theory/D0-brane quantum mechanics. The result strengthens and extends Polchinski's virial theorem bound to finite energies and gives the first non-trivial bound…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Henry W. Lin

The bootstrap approach (demanding consistency conditions to scattering amplitudes) has shown to be quite powerful to tightly constrain gauge theories at large $N_c$. We extend previous analysis to scattering amplitudes involving pions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-31 Teng Ma , Alex Pomarol , Francesco Sciotti

We use the conformal bootstrap approach to explore $5D$ CFTs with $O(N)$ global symmetry, which contain $N$ scalars $\phi_i$ transforming as $O(N)$ vector. Specifically, we study multiple four-point correlators of the leading $O(N)$ vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Zhijin Li , Ning Su

We propose a general way to complete supersymmetric theories with operators below the unitarity bound, adding gauge-singlet fields which enforce the decoupling of such operators. This makes it possible to perform all usual computations, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Sergio Benvenuti , Simone Giacomelli

This paper is the first of a series of works on the conformal bootstrap in Liouville conformal field theory (CFT) with boundaries. We focus here on the case of the annulus with two boundary insertions, each of which lies on the different…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-12 Baojun Wu

We use the conformal bootstrap to study conformal field theories with $O(N)$ global symmetry in $d=5$ and $d=5.95$ spacetime dimensions that have a scalar operator $\phi_i$ transforming as an $O(N)$ vector. The crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We present a new approach to bootstrapping string-like theories by exploiting a local crossing symmetric dispersion relation and field redefinition ambiguities. This approach enables us to use mass-level truncation and to go beyond the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-09 Faizan Bhat , Debapriyo Chowdhury , Arnab Priya Saha , Aninda Sinha

We study constraints on the space of $d=2$ fermionic CFTs as a function of non-perturbative anomalies exhibited under a fermionic discrete symmetry group $G^f$, focusing our attention also on cases where $G^f$ is non-abelian or presents a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-03 Andrea Grigoletto

In this work we initiate the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We promote an abstract operator-algebraic viewpoint in order to unify the description of Lagrangian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-25 Christopher Beem , Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We study two-point functions of single-trace half-BPS operators in the presence of a supersymmetric Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. We use inversion formula technology in order to reconstruct the CFT data starting from a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-30 Julien Barrat , Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

In this paper, we present a framework for the analytic bootstrap of three-point energy correlators, a crucial observable in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our approach combines spherical contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jianyu Gong , Andrzej Pokraka , Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

We investigate the connection between spacetime wormholes and ensemble averaging in the context of higher spin AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$. Using techniques from modular bootstrap combined with some holographic inputs, we evaluate the partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-08 Diptarka Das , Shouvik Datta

We consider holographic CFTs and study their large $N$ expansion. We use Polyakov-Mellin bootstrap to extract the CFT data of all operators, including scalars, till $O(1/N^4)$. We add a contact term in Mellin space, which corresponds to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Kausik Ghosh

The chiral algebra bootstrap (CAB) is a novel bootstrap program for form factors in quantum-integrable self-dual gauge theories, some of which in turn are helicity amplitudes in the corresponding gauge theories. The singularities that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-24 Jaazib Charanya , Anthony Morales , Natalie M. Paquette

We consider graviton scattering in maximal supergravity on Anti-de Sitter space (AdS) in $d+1$ dimensions for $d=3,4,\text{and $6$}$ with no extra compact spacetime factor. Holography suggests that this theory is dual to an exotic maximally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Luis F. Alday , Shai M. Chester

We employ a hybrid approach in determining the anomalous dimension and OPE coefficient of higher spin operators in the Wilson-Fisher theory. First we do a large spin analysis for CFT data where we use results obtained from the usual and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Parijat Dey , Apratim Kaviraj

We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to constrain the spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular bootstrap bound for chiral algebra $U(1)^c$ maps exactly to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli

This paper surveys a bootstrap framework for random Dirac operators arising from finite spectral triples in noncommutative geometry. Motivated by a toy model for quantum gravity to replace integration over metrics by integration over Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Masoud Khalkhali , Nathan Pagliaroli

We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of stress tensors in parity-preserving 3d CFTs. To set up the bootstrap equations, we analyze the constraints of conformal symmetry, permutation symmetry, and conservation on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Anatoly Dymarsky , Filip Kos , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin