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In this work, we investigate an inverse problem of recovering multiple orders in a time-fractional diffusion model from the data observed at one single point on the boundary. We prove the unique recovery of the orders together with their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian

The critical $O(N)$ CFT in spacetime dimensions $2 < d < 4$ is one of the most important examples of a conformal field theory, with the Ising CFT at $N=1$, $2 \leq d < 4$, as a notable special case. Apart from numerous physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-24 Johan Henriksson

In this note, we present an alternative representation of the conformal block with external scalars in general spacetime dimensions in terms of a finite summation over Appell fourth hypergeometric function ${\bf{F}}_4$. We also construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Heng-Yu Chen , Hideki Kyono

We introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We analyze the convergence properties of operator product expansions (OPE) for Lorentzian CFT four-point functions of scalar operators. We give a complete classification of Lorentzian four-point configurations. All configurations in each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Jiaxin Qiao

We consider manifestly crossing symmetric dispersion relations for Mellin amplitudes of scalar four point correlators in conformal field theories (CFTs). This allows us to set up the non-perturbative Polyakov bootstrap for CFTs in Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-31 Rajesh Gopakumar , Aninda Sinha , Ahmadullah Zahed

We use analytic conformal bootstrap methods to determine the anomalous dimensions and OPE coefficients for large spin operators in general conformal field theories in four dimensions containing a scalar operator of conformal dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

In this paper we consider anomalous dimensions of double trace operators at large spin ($\ell$) and large twist ($\tau$) in CFTs in arbitrary dimensions ($d\geq 3$). Using analytic conformal bootstrap methods, we show that the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-21 Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi

Four coframes of invariant 1-forms are explicitly constructed using the Inductive Cartan equivalence method with rank zero corresponding to four distinct branches. These coframes are employed to characterize non-linearizable fourth-order…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Sondos R. Khalil , Ahmad Y. Al-Dweik , Marwan Aloqeili , F. M. Mahomed

We discuss (arbitrary-dimensional) Lorentzian manifolds and the scalar polynomial curvature invariants constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives. Recently, we have shown that in four dimensions a Lorentzian spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alan Coley , Sigbjorn Hervik , Nicos Pelavas

We study an $O(N)$ invariant surface defect in the Wilson-Fisher conformal field theory (CFT) in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions. This defect is defined by mass deformation on a two-dimensional surface that generates localized disorder and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-17 Oleksandr Diatlyk , Zimo Sun , Yifan Wang

We study the renormalization group flow equations for correlation functions of weakly coupled quantum field theories in AdS. Taking the limit where the external points approach the conformal boundary, we obtain a flow of conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-27 Markus B. Fröb

We describe a systematic approach for the evaluation of Witten diagrams for multi-loop scattering amplitudes of a conformally coupled scalar $\phi^4$-theory in Euclidean AdS$_4$, by recasting the Witten diagrams as flat space Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Till Heckelbacher , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny Skvortsov , Pierre Vanhove

The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE coefficients of local operators. To shed light on this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Connor Behan

We apply the methods of modern analytic bootstrap to the critical $O(N)$ model in a $1/N$ expansion. At infinite $N$ the model possesses higher spin symmetry which is weakly broken as we turn on $1/N$. By studying consistency conditions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Luis F. Alday , Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

We determine the anomalous dimension matrix for the transversity operator mixing into total derivative operators in the limit of a large number of quark flavors $n_f$ to fourth order in the strong coupling $\alpha_s$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-23 S. Van Thurenhout

We illustrate the power and efficiency of a recently uncovered Mellin-space approach to AdS/CFT correlation functions by providing a universal formula for the 4-scalar graviton-exchange Witten diagram, for arbitrary CFT-dual scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-20 Gregory Giecold

We propose a fractional variant of Mellin's transform which may find an application in the Conformal Field Theory. Its advantage is the presence of an arbitrary parameter which may substantially simplify calculations and help adjusting…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-08-20 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

The late time limit of the power spectrum for heavy (principal series) fields in de Sitter space yields a series of polynomial terms with complex scaling dimensions. Such scaling behavior is expected to result from an associated operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Timothy Cohen , Daniel Green , Yiwen Huang