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Conformal field theories play a central role in theoretical physics with many applications ranging from condensed matter to string theory. The conformal bootstrap studies conformal field theories using mathematical consistency conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-09 Johan Henriksson

The analytic conformal bootstrap is an array of techniques to characterize, constrain, and solve strongly interacting quantum field theories using symmetries, causality, unitarity, and other general principles. In the last decade, bolstered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazac , David Simmons-Duffin , Alexander Zhiboedov

In this paper, we attempt to explore the landscape of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) by efficiently searching for numerical solutions to the modular bootstrap equation using machine-learning-style optimization. The torus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nathan Benjamin , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Wei Li , Jesse Thaler

A bifurcation is a qualitative change in a family of solutions to an equation produced by varying parameters. In contrast to the local bifurcations of dynamical systems that are often related to a change in the number or stability of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Robert I McLachlan , Christian Offen

We implement a version of conformal field theory (CFT) that gives a connection to SLE in a multiply connected domain. Our approach is based on the Gaussian free field and applies to CFTs with central charge $c \leq 1$. In this framework we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Tom Alberts , Sung-Soo Byun , Nam-Gyu Kang

We derive a universal asymptotic formula for generic boundary conditions for the average value of the bulk-to-boundary and boundary Operator Product Expansion coefficients of any unitary, compact two-dimensional Boundary CFT (BCFT) with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Tokiro Numasawa , Ioannis Tsiares

This lecture note covers topics on boundary conformal field theory, modular transformations and the Verlinde formula, and boundary logarithmic CFT. An introductory review on CFT with boundary and a discussion of its applications to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Shinsuke Kawai

We consider free higher derivative theories of scalars and Dirac fermions in the presence of a boundary in general dimension. We establish a method for finding consistent conformal boundary conditions in these theories by removing certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-10 Adam Chalabi , Christopher P. Herzog , Krishnendu Ray , Brandon Robinson , Jacopo Sisti , Andreas Stergiou

Boundaries in three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories may preserve one half of the original bulk supersymmetry. There are two possibilities which are characterized by the chirality of the leftover supercharges. Depending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo , Philine van Vliet

In this note we will study solution of open bosonic string field theory based on action of operators from chiral algebra of boundary conformal field theory on identity element of string field theory star algebra. We will demonstrate that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Kluson

In this article, the authors survey and review the studies of boundary value problems for regular functions in Clifford analysis, which include theoretical foundations and useful methods. Its theoretical bases consist of the generalized…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-09-16 J. Y. Du , P. Dang

We develop a bootstrap approach to Effective Field Theories (EFTs) based on the concept of duality in optimisation theory. As a first application, we consider the fascinating set of EFTs for confining flux tubes. The outcome of our analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Joan Elias Miró , Andrea Guerrieri

Boundary value problems on the unit sphere arise naturally in geophysics and oceanography when scientists model a physical quantity on large scales. Robust numerical methods play an important role in solving these problems. In this article,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-21 Quoc Thong Le Gia

We examine the transient scattered and transmitted fields generated when an incident electromagnetic wave impinges on a dielectric scatterer or a coated conductor embedded in an infinite space. By applying a boundary-field equation method,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-19 George C. Hsiao , Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet , Wolfgang L. Wendland

We introduce an effective field theory (EFT) for conformal impurity by considering a pair of transversely displaced impurities and integrating out modes with mass inversely proportional to the separation distance. This EFT captures the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Oleksandr Diatlyk , Himanshu Khanchandani , Fedor K. Popov , Yifan Wang

Thermal fluctuations of a critical system induce long-ranged Casimir forces between objects that couple to the underlying field. For two dimensional (2D) conformal field theories (CFT) we derive an exact result for the Casimir interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-30 G. Bimonte , T. Emig , M. Kardar

Logarithmic conformal field theories have a vast range of applications, from critical percolation to systems with quenched disorder. In this paper we thoroughly examine the structure of these theories based on their symmetry properties. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Matthijs Hogervorst , Miguel Paulos , Alessandro Vichi

We develop crossing symmetric dispersion relations for describing 2-2 scattering of identical external particles carrying spin. This enables us to import techniques from Geometric Function Theory and study two sided bounds on low energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Subham Dutta Chowdhury , Kausik Ghosh , Parthiv Haldar , Prashanth Raman , Aninda Sinha

We study the tricritical Ising universality class using conformal bootstrap techniques. By studying bootstrap constraints originating from multiple correlators on the CFT data of multiple OPEs, we are able to determine the scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-11 Chethan N Gowdigere , Jagannath Santara , Sumedha

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic acoustic obstacle scattering problems. The main computational task is the evaluation of an oscillatory boundary integral at each discretization point of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying