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We explore the large spin spectrum in two-dimensional conformal field theories with a finite twist gap, using the modular bootstrap in the lightcone limit. By recursively solving the modular crossing equations associated to different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Nathan Benjamin , Hirosi Ooguri , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

A 2D- fractional supersymmetry theory is algebraically constructed. The Lagrangian is derived using an adapted superspace including, in addition to a scalar field, two fields with spins 1/3,2/3. This theory turns out to be a rational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Perez , M. Rausch de Traubenberg , P. Simon

Universal properties of a critical quantum spin chain are encoded in the underlying conformal field theory (CFT). This underlying CFT is fully characterized by its conformal data. We propose a method to extract the conformal data from a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-05 Yijian Zou , Guifre Vidal

We study the use of transformers to reconstruct the compositions of tensor products of two-dimensional rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) based on their low-energy spectra. The task is challenging due to its combinatorial nature. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Haotian Cao , Garrett Merz , Kyle Cranmer , Gary Shiu

We elaborate on the proposal of flat holography in which four-dimensional physics is encoded in two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The symmetry underlying CCFT is the extended BMS symmetry of (asymptotically) flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

With a view to understanding extended-BMS symmetries in the framework of the $AdS_4/CFT_3$ correspondence, asymptotically AdS geometries are constructed with null impulsive shockwaves involving a discontinuity in superrotation parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 David A. Lowe , David M. Ramirez

Two-dimensional conformal field theories with a large central charge and a small number of low-dimension operators are studied using the conformal block expansion. A universal formula is derived for the Renyi entropies of N disjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-29 Thomas Hartman

We study correlation functions of the bulk stress tensor and boundary operators in Quantum Field Theories (QFT) in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. In particular, we derive new sum rules from the two-point function of the stress tensor and its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-31 Marco Meineri , Joao Penedones , Taro Spirig

We show how a field theory containing classical vortex solutions can be expressed as an effective string theory of long distance QCD describing the two transverse oscillations of the string. We use the semiclassical expansion of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 M. Baker , R. Steinke

We study a model of 3d gravity relevant to the open sector of a CFT ensemble. The quantum theory is the open Virasoro TQFT, obtained by restricting the full open-closed Virasoro TQFT to a subclass of admissible manifolds. We show that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-13 Daniel L. Jafferis , Diandian Wang

In this paper, we elaborate on aspects of the recently introduced BMS bootstrap programme. We consider two-dimensional (2d) field theories with BMS3 symmetry and extensively use highest weight representations to uncover the BMS version of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 Arjun Bagchi , Mirah Gary , Zodinmawia

The recent study in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence shows that the tree level contribution and 1-loop correction of holographic R\'enyi entanglement entropy (HRE) exactly match the direct CFT computation in the large central charge limit.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 Bin Chen , Feng-yan Song , Jia-ju Zhang

The conformal anomaly and the Virasoro algebra are fundamental aspects of 2D conformal field theory and conformally covariant models in planar random geometry. In this article, we explicitly derive the Virasoro algebra from an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Sid Maibach , Eveliina Peltola

We formulate axioms of conformal theory (CT) in dimensions $>2$ modifying Segal's axioms for two-dimensional CFT. (In the definition of higher-dimensional CFT one includes also a condition of existence of energy-momentum tensor.) We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Albert Schwarz

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

We show that the near horizon regime of a Kerr-Newman-$AdS$ (KN$AdS$) black hole, given by its two dimensional analogue $a la$ Robinson and Wilczek (2005 Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 011303), is asymptotically $AdS_2$ and dual to a one dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-20 Bradly K. Button , Leo Rodriguez , Catherine A. Whiting , Tuna Yildirim

We use the framework of $\textit{fixed-point BCFT tensor networks}$ to present a microscopic CFT derivation of the correspondence between reflected entropy (RE) and entanglement wedge cross section (EW) in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$, for both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Ning Bao , Jinwei Chu , Yikun Jiang , Jacob March

We develop a novel numerical bootstrap for unitary, crossing-symmetric conformal field theories, focusing on moment observables defined as weighted averages over conformal data. Providing a global and coarse-grained probe of the operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Li-Yuan Chiang , David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We systematically explore the construction of Nielsen's circuit complexity to a non-Lorentzian field theory keeping in mind its connection with flat holography. We consider a 2d boundary field theory dual to 3d asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Poulami Nandi