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Three-dimensional theories with cubic symmetry are studied using the machinery of the numerical conformal bootstrap. Crossing symmetry and unitarity are imposed on a set of mixed correlators, and various aspects of the parameter space are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We derive exact relations between certain integrals of the conserved flavor current four point function in 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ conformal field theories (CFTs) and derivatives of the mass deformed sphere free energy, which can be computed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-02 Shai M. Chester

We investigate the non-BPS realm of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theory by uniting the non-perturbative methods of the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization, and utilizing special features of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Chi-Ming Chang , Martin Fluder , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang

Building on arXiv:1911.05827, we uncover new properties of type-B conformal anomalies for Coulomb-branch operators in continuous families of 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs. We study a large class of such anomalies on the Higgs branch, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-09 Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis , Alessandro Pini , Elli Pomoni

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, with a focus on the Ising model in various dimensions. We show that an analytic approach to the bootstrap is feasible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We initiate the bootstrap program for $\mathcal{N}=3$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in four dimensions. The problem is considered from two fronts: the protected subsector described by a $2d$ chiral algebra, and crossing symmetry for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

We consider a conformal field theory in the presence of a boundary, and explain how two-point correlators of mixed bulk-local operators can be bootstrapped by exploiting the analytical structure of the conformal blocks. This yields the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Alexander Söderberg Rousu

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity in general 3D Conformal Field Theories. In doing so we derive new results for conformal blocks appearing in four-point functions of scalars and present an efficient method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We apply numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to the four-point function of a Weyl spinor in 4d non-supersymmetric CFTs. We find universal bounds on operator dimensions and OPE coefficients, including bounds on operators in mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Marco Serone , Alessandro Vichi

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 investigate relevant properties of composite operators emerging in nonsupersymmetric, four-dimensional gauge-Yukawa theories with interacting conformal fixed points within a precise framework. The theories investigated in this work are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-12 Oleg Antipin , Esben Mølgaard , Francesco Sannino

We initiate the conformal bootstrap study of Quantum Electrodynamics in $2+1$ space-time dimensions (QED$_{3}$) with $N$ flavors of charged fermions by focusing on the 4-point function of four monopole operators with the lowest unit of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu

We present a new algorithm for the numerical evaluation of five-point conformal blocks in $d$-dimensions, greatly improving the efficiency of their computation. To do this we use an appropriate ansatz for the blocks as a series expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

How much spectral information is needed to determine the correlation functions of a conformal theory? We study this question in the context of planar supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where integrability techniques accurately determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Simon Caron-Huot , Frank Coronado , Anh-Khoi Trinh , Zahra Zahraee

We study two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with boundaries via the conformal bootstrap. We derive a positive semi-definite program from crossing symmetry of three observables: the annulus partition function, the two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Marco Meineri , Bharathkumar Radhakrishnan

We study multi-loop conformal integrals for four-point correlators of planar ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, and in particular those contributing to Coulomb branch amplitudes in the ten-dimensional lightlike limit, where linear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-16 Song He , Xuhang Jiang , Jiahao Liu , Yao-Qi Zhang

Let $\hat\Sigma=\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n X_i\otimes X_i$ denote the sample covariance operator of centered i.i.d.~observations $X_1,\dots,X_n$ in a real separable Hilbert space, and let $\Sigma=\mathbb{E}(X_1\otimes X_1)$. The focus of this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Miles E. Lopes

We study a conformal field theory with cubic anisotropic symmetry in presence of a line defect. We compute the correlators of the low lying defect operators using Feynman diagrams and derive explicit expressions for the two, three and four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-24 Parijat Dey , Kausik Ghosh

We study three-dimensional conformal field theories with a large-$N$ limit. Leveraging the framework of slightly broken higher-spin symmetry, we bootstrap correlation functions between the single-trace, local operators and straight,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 Gwenaël Ferrando , Amit Sever , Elior Urisman

We apply the analytic conformal bootstrap method to study weakly coupled conformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We employ twist conformal blocks to find the most general form of the one-loop four-point correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Johan Henriksson , Tomasz Lukowski