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We consider a generalization of the two-dimensional Liouville conformal field theory to any number of even dimensions. The theories consist of a log-correlated scalar field with a background $\mathcal{Q}$-curvature charge and an exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-07 Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

An analytic expression is proposed for the three-point function of the exponential fields in the Liouville field theory on a sphere. In the classical limit it coincides with what the classical Liouville theory predicts. Using this function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. B. Zamolodchikov , Al. B. Zamolodchikov

In 1987 Graeme Segal gave a functorial definition of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) that was designed to capture the mathematical essence of the Conformal Bootstrap formalism pioneered in physics by Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov. In Segal's…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

The quantum Wess-Zumino-Witten $\to$ Liouville reduction is formulated using the phase space path integral method of Batalin, Fradkin, and Vilkovisky, adapted to theories on compact two dimensional manifolds. The importance of the zero…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. O'Raifeartaigh , V. V. Sreedhar

We investigate the relation between 3d N=2 theories and 2d free field correlators or Dotsenko-Fateev (DF) integrals for Liouville CFT. We show that the S^2xS^1 partition functions of some known 3d Seiberg-like dualities reduce, in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Sara Pasquetti , Matteo Sacchi

We demonstrate how negative powers of screenings arise as a nonperturbative effect within the operator approach to Liouville theory. This explains the origin of the corresponding poles in the exact Liouville three point function proposed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jens Schnittger

We present a systematic small-$b$ expansion of the Liouville DOZZ three-point structure constant in the light-operator regime \(\alpha_i=b\sigma_i\) as \(b\to0\). In this limit, the exact DOZZ function factorizes into a prefactor \({\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-13 Franco Ferrari , Marcin R. Piatek , Artur R. Pietrykowski

We demonstrate that, by utilizing the boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) operator algebra of the Liouville CFT, one can express its path-integral on any Riemann surface as a three dimensional path-integral with appropriate boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lin Chen , Ling-Yan Hung , Yikun Jiang , Bing-Xin Lao

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 point out that there is a generalization to higher dimensions $d=2h>2$ of the two-dimensional Dotsenko-Fateev formula \DF\ for particular Coulomb gas conformal invariant integrals. These expressions represent structure constants of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-11 P. Furlan , V. B. Petkova

The phase space path integral Wess-Zumino-Witten $\to$ Toda reductions are formulated in a manifestly conformally invariant way. For this purpose, the method of Batalin, Fradkin, and Vilkovisky, adapted to conformal field theories, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. O. Raifeartaigh , V. V. Sreedhar

We prove conjectures of Zamolodchikov and Belavin-Belavin in Liouville conformal field theory (CFT), which are generalisations of the celebrated Belavin-Polyakov-Zamolodchikov equations known as the higher equations of motion.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Guillaume Baverez , Baojun Wu

We investigate analyticity properties of correlation functions in conformal field theories (CFT) in the Wightman formulation. The goal is to determine domain of holomorphy of permuted Wightman functions. We focus on crossing property of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Jnanadeva Maharana

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

Based on the rigorous path integral formulation of Liouville Conformal Field Theory initiated by David-Kupiainen-Rhodes-Vargas on the Riemann sphere and David-Rhodes-Vargas on the torus of modulus $\tau$, we give the exact asymptotic…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-23 Guillaume Baverez

The modular matrix for the generic 1-point conformal blocks on the torus is expressed in terms of the fusion matrix for the 4-point blocks on the sphere. The modular invariance of the toric 1-point functions in the Liouville field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-03 Leszek Hadasz , Zbigniew Jaskolski , Paulina Suchanek

The path integral description of the Wess-Zumino-Witten $\to$ Liouville reduction is formulated in a manner that exhibits the conformal invariance explicitly at each stage of the reduction process. The description requires a conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 L. O'Raifeartaigh , V. V. Sreedhar

We use analytic (super-)conformal bootstrap methods to derive explicit expressions for the structure constants of $\mathcal{N}=1$ Liouville CFT in the `timelike' regime of the superconformal central charge. The obtained expressions take the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-30 Beatrix Mühlmann , Vladimir Narovlansky , Ioannis Tsiares

Under the assumption that degenerate fields exist, diagonal CFTs such as Liouville theory can be solved analytically using the conformal bootstrap method. Here we generalize this approach to non-diagonal CFTs, i.e. CFTs whose primary fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Santiago Migliaccio , Sylvain Ribault

The conformal bootstrap hypothesis is a powerful idea in theoretical physics which has led to spectacular predictions in the context of critical phenomena. It postulates an explicit expression for the correlation functions of a conformal…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas