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We set up the bootstrap procedure for supersymmetric Galilean Conformal (SGC) field theories in two dimensions by constructing the SGC blocks in the $\mathcal{N}=1$ and two possible $\mathcal{N} =2$ extensions of the Galilean conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-25 Ivano Lodato , Wout Merbis , Zodinmawia

We study a three dimensional conformal field theory in terms of its partition function on arbitrary curved spaces. The large $N$ limit of the nonlinear sigma model at the non-trivial fixed point is shown to be an example of a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Guruswamy , S. G. Rajeev , P. Vitale

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

Infrared fixed points of gauge theories provide intriguing targets for the modern conformal bootstrap program. In this work we provide some preliminary evidence that a family of gauged fermionic CFTs saturate bootstrap bounds and can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-29 Zhijin Li , David Poland

We propose a novel approach to study conformal field theories (CFTs) in general dimensions. In the conformal bootstrap program, one usually searches for consistent CFT data that satisfy crossing symmetry. In the new approach, we reverse the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Wenliang Li

Causality places nontrivial constraints on QFT in Lorentzian signature, for example fixing the signs of certain terms in the low energy Lagrangian. In d-dimensional conformal field theory, we show how such constraints are encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-05 Thomas Hartman , Sachin Jain , Sandipan Kundu

In this work we initiate the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=2$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions. We promote an abstract operator-algebraic viewpoint in order to unify the description of Lagrangian and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-25 Christopher Beem , Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

In large part, the future utility of modern numerical conformal bootstrap depends on its ability to accurately predict the existence of hitherto unknown non-trivial conformal field theories (CFTs). Here we investigate the extent to which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Matthew T. Dowens , Chris A. Hooley

Bootstrap equations for conformal correlators that mimic the early theory of conformal bootstrap are written down in frames of the AdS/CFT approach. The simplified version of these equations, that may be justified if Schwinger-Keldysh…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-28 Boris L. Altshuler

We systematically derive the consistency relations associated to the non-linearly realized symmetries of theories with spontaneously broken conformal symmetry but with a linearly-realized de Sitter subalgebra. These identities relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-12 Paolo Creminelli , Austin Joyce , Justin Khoury , Marko Simonović

We initiate a study of the bootstrap programme for field theories with BMS symmetry. Specifically, we look at two-dimensional field theories with BMS3 symmetry and, using highest weight representations, we construct the BMS bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Arjun Bagchi , Mirah Gary , Zodinmawia

We study an ${\cal N} = 2$ supersymmetric generalization of the three-dimensional critical $O(N)$ vector model that is described by $N+1$ chiral superfields with superpotential $W = g_1 X \sum_i Z_i^2 + g_2 X^3$. By combining the tools of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Shai M. Chester , Simone Giombi , Luca V. Iliesiu , Igor R. Klebanov , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

Conformal field theories play a central role in modern theoretical physics with many applications to the understanding of phase transitions, gauge theories and even the quantum physics of gravity, through Maldacena's celebrated holographic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Volker Schomerus

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 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 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 consider the four-point correlator of the stress tensor multiplet in N=4 SYM. We construct all solutions consistent with crossing symmetry in the limit of large central charge c ~ N^2 and large g^2 N. While we find an infinite tower of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Tomasz Lukowski

We construct a set of non-rational conformal field theories that consist of deformations of Toda field theory for sl(n). Besides conformal invariance, the theories still enjoy a remnant infinite-dimensional affine symmetry. The case n=3 is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Juan Pablo Babaro , Gaston Giribet , Arash Ranjbar

In physics, it is believed that the consistency of two dimensional conformal field theory follows from the bootstrap equation. In this paper, we introduce the notion of a full vertex algebra by analyzing the bootstrap equation, which is a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Yuto Moriwaki

Conformal symmetries appear in many parts of physics and play a unique role in exploring the Universe. In this work, we consider the possibility of constructing conformal theories of gravity in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktor Gakis , Martin Krššák , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis