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We apply the numerical bootstrap program to chiral operators in four-dimensional ${\mathcal N}=2$ SCFTs. In the first part of this work we study four-point functions in which all fields have the same conformal dimension. We give special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-12 Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo

We propose an interesting BPS/CFT correspondence playground: the correlation function of two intersecting half-BPS surface defects in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $2N$ fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-25 Saebyeok Jeong , Norton Lee , Nikita Nekrasov

In this letter we study how the exact non-perturbative integrability methods in 4D N=4 Super-Yang-Mills can work efficiently together with the numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to go beyond the spectral observables and access…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti

We study the numerical bounds obtained using a conformal-bootstrap method - advocated in ref. [1] but never implemented so far - where different points in the plane of conformal cross ratios $z$ and $\bar z$ are sampled. In contrast to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

We apply the numerical conformal bootstrap to correlators of Coulomb and Higgs branch operators in $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories. We start by revisiting previous results on single correlators of Coulomb branch operators. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We introduce a novel class of defects, termed crosscap defects, in conformal field theory (CFT) in general dimensions. These arise from quotienting the spacetime by a $Z_2$ automorphism, and provide higher-codimension generalisations of CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Nadav Drukker , Shota Komatsu , Anders Wallberg

We introduce an approach to find approximate numerical solutions of truncated bootstrap equations for Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in arbitrary dimensions. The method is based on a stochastic search via a Metropolis algorithm guided by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Alessandro Laio , Uriel Luviano Valenzuela , Marco Serone

We initiate the classification of unitary superconformal defects in unitary superconformal field theories (SCFT) of diverse spacetime dimensions $3\leq d \leq 6$. Our method explores general constraints from the defect superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Nathan B. Agmon , Yifan Wang

The numerical conformal bootstrap is used to study mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. Systems of four-point functions involving scalar chiral and real operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , Andreas Stergiou

This thesis contains three main parts, which are largely independent. In the first part we deal with the boundary bootstrap in supersymmetric factorized scattering theory. We give a description of supersymmetry in the case when the space is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-11-21 Gabor Zsolt Toth

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with MN and tetragonal global symmetry in $d=2+1$ dimensions are relevant for structural, antiferromagnetic and helimagnetic phase transitions in a wide class of materials. The study of these theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-23 Andreas Stergiou

We study various aspects of half-BPS surface defect operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For defects on generic points on the moduli space we use superconformal symmetry to fix the form of one-point and two-point functions of half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Adolfo Holguin , Hiroki Kawai

In conformal field theories (CFTs) of dimension $d>3$, two-dimensional (2d) conformal defects are characterised in part by central charges defined via the defect's contribution to the trace anomaly. However, in general for interacting CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Adam Chalabi , Andy O'Bannon , Brandon Robinson , Jacopo Sisti

6d (2,0) SCFTs of type $\mathfrak{g}$ have protected subsectors that were conjectured in arxiv:1404.1079 to be captured by $\mathcal{W}_\mathfrak{g}$ algebras. We write down the crossing equations for mixed four-point functions $\langle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-24 Mitchell Woolley

We study two-dimensional (4,4) superconformal field theories of central charge c=6, corresponding to nonlinear sigma models on K3 surfaces, using the superconformal bootstrap. This is made possible through a surprising relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-13 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , David Simmons-Duffin , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We introduce a non-unitary-compatible numerical bootstrap strategy based on the statistical stability of OPE data inferred from crossing at multiple cross-ratios. For a trial spectrum, crossing determines OPE coefficients whose residual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-24 Yu-tin Huang , Shao-Cheng Lee , Henry Liao , Justinas Rumbutis

The magnetic line defect in the $O(N)$ model gives rise to a non-trivial one-dimensional defect conformal field theory of theoretical and experimental value. This model is considered here in $d=4-\varepsilon$ and the full spectrum of defect…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Jake Belton , Nadav Drukker , Ziwen Kong , Andreas Stergiou

We propose a bootstrap program for CFTs near intersecting boundaries which form a co-dimension 2 edge. We describe the kinematical setup and show that bulk 1-pt functions and bulk-edge 2-pt functions depend on a non-trivial cross-ratio and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 António Antunes

We initiate the lightcone bootstrap analysis of multipoint correlators in a defect conformal field theory. The setup we consider is the three-point function of two bulk and one defect operator. Requiring consistency of the crossing equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Lorenzo Bianchi , Andrea Mattiello , Lorenzo Quintavalle

We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of stress tensors in parity-preserving 3d CFTs. To set up the bootstrap equations, we analyze the constraints of conformal symmetry, permutation symmetry, and conservation on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Anatoly Dymarsky , Filip Kos , Petr Kravchuk , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin