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Consider the supremal functional \[ \tag{1} \label{1} E_\infty(u,A) \,:=\, \|L(\cdot,u,D u)\|_{L^\infty(A)},\quad A\subseteq \Omega, \] applied to $W^{1,\infty}$ maps $u:\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}\longrightarrow \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq 1$.…
We study the implications of 't Hooft anomaly (i.e. obstruction to gauging) on conformal field theory, focusing on the case when the global symmetry is $\mathbb{Z_2}$. Using the modular bootstrap, universal bounds on (1+1)-dimensional…
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