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The four point functions of chiral primary BPS operators in ${\cal N}=4$ superconformal Yang Mills are expressed in a form manifestly satisfying the superconformal Ward identities. They are subsequently expanded in terms of conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-15 Christopher Rayson

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

We introduce a class of 3d theories consisting of strongly-coupled ${\mathcal N}=4$ systems coupled to ${\mathcal N}=3$ Chern-Simons gauge multiplets, which exhibit ${\mathcal N}=4$ enhancements when a peculiar condition on the Chern-Simons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-12 Benjamin Assel , Yuji Tachikawa , Alessandro Tomasiello

We calculate two different types of 3-point correlators involving twist-2 operators in the leading weak coupling approximation and all orders in N_c in N=4 SYM theory. Each of three operators in the first correlator can be any component of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Vladimir Kazakov , Evgeny Sobko

Using an explicit path integral approach we derive non-abelian bosonization and duality of 3D systems in the large $N$ limit. We first consider a fermionic $U(N)$ vector model coupled to level $k$ Chern-Simons theory, following standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-23 Nouman Muteeb , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Fernando Quevedo

In this work we construct the crossing symmetry equations for mixed correlators of two long and two BPS operators in 4D $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs. The analysis presented here illustrates how our general group theoretic approach to long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

The recent emergence of the modern conformal bootstrap method for the study of conformal field theories (CFTs) has enabled the revisiting of old problems in classical critical phenomena described by three-dimensional CFTs. The study of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

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

We initiate an exploration of the conformal bootstrap for $n>4$ point correlation functions. Here we bootstrap correlation functions of the lightest scalar gauge invariant operators in planar non-abelian conformal gauge theories as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Carlos Bercini , Vasco Gonçalves , Pedro Vieira

We use a combination of perturbation theory, holography, supersymmetric localization, integrability, and numerical conformal bootstrap methods to constrain the energy-energy correlator in $\text{SU}(N_c)$ ${\mathcal N}=4$ SYM at finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Ross Dempsey , Robin Karlsson , Silviu S. Pufu , Zahra Zahraee , Alexander Zhiboedov

We calculate the leading contributions to the connected two-point functions of protected scalar operators in the defect version of N=4 SYM theory which is dual to the D5-D3 probe-brane system with k units of background gauge field flux.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Marius de Leeuw , Asger C. Ipsen , Charlotte Kristjansen , Kasper E. Vardinghus , Matthias Wilhelm

We develop new tools for isolating CFTs using the numerical bootstrap. A "cutting surface" algorithm for scanning OPE coefficients makes it possible to find islands in high-dimensional spaces. Together with recent progress in large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-06 Shai M. Chester , Walter Landry , Junyu Liu , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Ning Su , Alessandro Vichi

We present a conjecture for the crossing symmetry rules for Chern-Simons gauge theories interacting with massive matter in $2+1$ dimensions. Our crossing rules are given in terms of the expectation values of particular tangles of Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Umang Mehta , Shiraz Minwalla , Chintan Patel , Shiroman Prakash , Kartik Sharma

We report on non-perturbative bounds for structure constants on N=4 SYM. Such bounds are obtained by applying the conformal bootstrap recently extended to superconformal theories. We compare our results with interpolating functions suitably…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi

We study the defect CFT associated with the half-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Using a perturbative bootstrap approach, we derive new analytical results for multipoint correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Daniele Artico , Julien Barrat , Giulia Peveri

We numerically study the crossing symmetry constraints in 4D CFTs, using previously introduced algorithms based on semidefinite programming. We study bounds on OPE coefficients of tensor operators as a function of their scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Caracciolo , Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

The critical behaviour of the O(n)-symmetric model with two n-vector fields is studied within the field-theoretical renormalization group approach in a D=4-2 epsilon expansion. Depending on the coupling constants the beta-functions, fixed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-09 Yuri M. Pis'mak , Alexej Weber , Franz J. Wegner

We study the spectrum of the large $N$ quantum field theory of bosonic rank-$3$ tensors, whose quartic interactions are such that the perturbative expansion is dominated by the melonic diagrams. We use the Schwinger-Dyson equations to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-29 Simone Giombi , Igor R. Klebanov , Grigory Tarnopolsky

In this article we present a novel semi-analytical approach to calculate first-order electron-vibration coupling constants within the framework of density functional theory. It combines analytical expressions for the first-order derivative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Marius Bürkle , Janne K. Viljas , Thomas J. Hellmuth , Elke Scheer , Florian Weigend , Gerd Schön , Fabian Pauly

We apply the recently proposed quantum spectral curve technique to the study of twist operators in planar N=4 SYM theory. We focus on the small spin expansion of anomalous dimensions in the sl(2) sector and compute its first two orders…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-14 Nikolay Gromov , Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk , Grigory Sizov , Saulius Valatka