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Any N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) in four dimensions has a sector of operators related to a two-dimensional chiral algebra containing a Virasoro sub-algebra. Moreover, there are well-known examples of isolated SCFTs whose chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

Let $\mathbb V=\bigoplus_{n\in\mathbb N}\mathbb V(n)$ be a $C_2$-cofinite vertex operator algebra. We prove the convergence of Segal's sewing of conformal blocks associated to analytic families of pointed compact Riemann surfaces and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Bin Gui , Hao Zhang

We analytically determine the large central charge asymptotic expansion of the Virasoro conformal blocks entering in four-point functions with external degenerate operators on a sphere in $2d$ CFTs, and study its resurgence properties as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Agnese Bissi , Nicola Dondi , Alessandro Piazza , Tomas Reis , Marco Serone

We completely classify diffeomorphism covariant local nets of von Neumann algebras on the circle with central charge c less than 1. The irreducible ones are in bijective correspondence with the pairs of A-D_{2n}-E_{6,8} Dynkin diagrams such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Yasuyuki Kawahigashi , Roberto Longo

For a simple, self-dual, strong CFT-type vertex operator algebra (VOA) of central charge $c$, we describe the Virasoro $n$-point correlation function on a genus $g$ marked Riemann surface in the Schottky uniformisation. We show that this…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Michael P. Tuite , Michael Welby

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Jean-François Fortin , Lorenzo Quintavalle , Witold Skiba

Computation of the spherical harmonic rotation coefficients or elements of Wigner's d-matrix is important in a number of quantum mechanics and mathematical physics applications. Particularly, this is important for the Fast Multipole Methods…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

We present a general method for computing the central charges a and c of N=2 superconformal field theories corresponding to singular points in the moduli space of N=2 gauge theories. Our method relates a and c to the U(1)_R anomalies of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Alfred D. Shapere , Yuji Tachikawa

We consider the conformal blocks in the theories with extended conformal W-symmetry for the integer Virasoro central charges. We show that these blocks for the generalized twist fields on sphere can be computed exactly in terms of the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 P. Gavrylenko , A. Marshakov

We consider correlation functions for a vertex operator algebra on a genus two Riemann surface formed by sewing two tori together. We describe a generalisation of genus one Zhu recursion where we express an arbitrary genus two $n$--point…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Thomas Gilroy , Michael P. Tuite

Using conformal field theory, we perform a complete analysis of the chiral six-point correlation function C(z)=< \phi_{1,2}\phi_{1,2} \Phi_{1/2,0}(z, \bar z) \phi_{1,2}\phi_{1,2} >, with the four \phi_{1,2} operators at the corners of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-13 Jacob J. H. Simmons , Peter Kleban

We describe in detail the method used in our previous work arXiv:1611.10344 to study the Wilson-Fisher critical points nearby generalized free CFTs, exploiting the analytic structure of conformal blocks as functions of the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ferdinando Gliozzi , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Anastasios C. Petkou , Congkao Wen

In this paper we compute the N-point correlation functions of the tachyon operator from the Neveu Schwarz sector of super Liouville theory coupled to matter fields (with $\hat c\le 1$) in the super Coulomb gas formulation, on world sheets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Abdalla , M. C. B. Abdalla , D. Dalmazi , Koji Harada

We consider 5-point functions in conformal field theories in d > 2 dimensions. Using weight-shifting operators, we derive recursion relations which allow for the computation of arbitrary conformal blocks appearing in 5-point functions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-23 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina

We reexamine two-dimensional Lorentzian conformal field theory using the formalism previously developed in a study of sine-square deformation of Euclidean conformal field theory. We construct three types of Virasoro algebra. One of them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Xun Liu , Tsukasa Tada

We propose a correction to one of the elliptic blocks in the NS sector of 2d $\mathcal N = 1$ superconformal field theories. We analyze the 4-point block in the pillow geometry to demonstrate the necessity of the correction and verify the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-09 Kangning Liu

A semiclassical model based on the solution of the Vlasov equation for finite systems with a sharp moving surface has been used to study the isoscalar quadrupole and octupole collective modes in heavy spherical nuclei. Within this model, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 V. I. Abrosimov , A. Dellafiore , F. Matera

In this thesis we study two-dimensional conformal field theories with Virasoro algebra symmetry, following the conformal bootstrap approach. Under the assumption that degenerate fields exist, we provide an extension of the analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-06 Santiago Migliaccio

Black hole microstates and their approximate thermodynamic properties can be studied using heavy-light correlation functions in AdS/CFT. Universal features of these correlators can be extracted from the Virasoro conformal blocks in CFT2,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-08 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

Conformal block is a function of many variables, usually represented as a formal series, with coefficients which are certain matrix elements in the chiral (e.g. Virasoro) algebra. Non-perturbative conformal block is a multi-valued function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 H. Itoyama , A. Mironov , A. Morozov