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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Zohar Komargodski , Alexander Zhiboedov

We establish that all of the one- and two-dimensional global conformal blocks are, up to some choice of prefactor, free-particle wavefunctions in tensor products of AdS$_3$ or limits thereof. Our first core observation is that the six-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-16 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Sarthak Parikh , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Witold Skiba

Galactic rotation curves exhibit diverse behavior in the inner regions, while obeying an organizing principle, i.e., they can be approximately described by a radial acceleration relation or the Modified Newtonian Dynamics phenomenology. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 Tao Ren , Anna Kwa , Manoj Kaplinghat , Hai-Bo Yu

This note presents a purely geometric construction of the so-called twist-field correlation functions in Conformal Field Theory (CFT), derived from conical singularities. This approach provides a purely mathematical interpretation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-03 Benoit Estienne , Jiasheng Lin

The scaling dimension of the first excited state in two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) satisfies a universal upper bound. Using the modular bootstrap, we extend this result to CFTs with $W_3$ algebras which are generically dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-12 Luis Apolo

A comparison theorem by Choe, Ghomi and Ritor\'e states that the exterior isoperimetric profile $I_\mathcal{C}$ of any convex body $\mathcal{C}$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$ lies above that of any half-space $H$. We characterize convex bodies such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Nicola Fusco , Francesco Maggi , Massimiliano Morini , Michael Novack

Virasoro conformal blocks are a family of important functions defined as power series via the Virasoro algebra. They are a fundamental input to the conformal bootstrap program for 2D conformal field theory (CFT) and are closely related to…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Promit Ghosal , Guillaume Remy , Xin Sun , Yi Sun

In the large N_c(number of colors) limit, quenched QCD and QCD are identical. This implies that, in the effective field theory framework, some of the low energy constants in (N_c=3) quenched QCD and QCD are the same up to higher-order…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Jiunn-Wei Chen

Hidden symmetries of non-relativistic $\mathfrak{so} (2,1)\cong \mathfrak{sl}(2, {\mathbb R})$ invariant systems in a cosmic string background are studied using the conformal bridge transformation. Geometric properties of this background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Luis Inzunza , Mikhail S. Plyushchay

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) on manifolds with a boundary. We can use conformal symmetry to constrain correlation functions of conformal invariant fields. We compute two-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

We examine the BCFW recursion relations for celestial amplitudes and how they inform the celestial bootstrap program. We start by recasting the celestial incarnation of the BCFW shift as a generalization of the action of familiar asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-31 Yangrui Hu , Sabrina Pasterski

In a recent paper (arXiv:0906.3219) the representation of Nekrasov partition function in terms of nontrivial two-dimensional conformal field theory has been suggested. For non-vanishing value of the deformation parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-16 A. Marshakov , A. Mironov , A. Morozov

In this paper we compute higher particle form factors of branch point twist fields. These fields were first described in the context of massive 1+1-dimensional integrable quantum field theories and their correlation functions are related to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-22 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Emanuele Levi

In a physical system with conformal symmetry, observables depend on cross-ratios, measures of distance invariant under global conformal transformations (conformal geometry for short). We identify a quantum information-theoretic mechanism by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Isaac H. Kim , Xiang Li , Ting-Chun Lin , John McGreevy , Bowen Shi

We consider the dimensional reduction of a CFT, breaking multiplets of the d-dimensional conformal group SO(d+1,1) up into multiplets of SO(d,1). This leads to an expansion of d-dimensional conformal blocks in terms of blocks in d-1…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Matthijs Hogervorst

Crossing symmetry (CS) is the main tool in the bootstrap program applied to CFT models. This consists in an equality which imposes restrictions on the CFT data of a model, i.e, the OPE coefficients and the conformal dimensions. Reflection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-24 Leandro Lanosa , Mauricio Leston , Mario Passaglia

The Interacting Boson Model of nuclear structure is introduced to the unitarity limit. Non relativistic conformal symmetry creates a scale invariant state from which the stationary states of atomic nuclei are obtained. A brief discussion of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-14 P. E. Georgoudis

In this paper, we want to give an exposition of our recent work on linear and nonlinear potential theory and their applications in conformal geometry. We use potential theory to study linear and quasilinear equations arising from conformal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Shiguang Ma , Jie Qing

In this paper we develop further the relation between conformal four-point blocks involving external spinning fields and Calogero-Sutherland quantum mechanics with matrix-valued potentials. To this end, the analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

We derive expressions for the Virasoro OPE and four-point conformal blocks on the sphere via the resolution of identity recently determined in [Phys. Rev. D 111, 085010 (2025), arXiv:2409.12224]. Even though the resolution of the identity…

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