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Based on the spectrum identified in our earlier work [arXiv:1809.02191], we numerically solve the bootstrap to determine four-point correlation functions of the geometrical connectivities in the $Q$-state Potts model. Crucial in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Yifei He , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

We derive higher moments in the statistical distribution of OPE coefficients in holographic 2D CFTs, and show that such moments correspond to multiboundary Euclidean wormholes in pure 3D gravity. The n-th cyclic non-Gaussian contraction of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-31 Jan de Boer , Diego Liska , Boris Post

An analytic expression is proposed for the three-point function of the exponential fields in the Liouville field theory on a sphere. In the classical limit it coincides with what the classical Liouville theory predicts. Using this function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. B. Zamolodchikov , Al. B. Zamolodchikov

Correlation functions of energy flow operators (energy-energy correlators) are one of the simplest observables in quantum field theory and gravity, with diverse applications ranging from real world collider physics to constraining the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Bianka Meçaj , Ian Moult , Matthew T. Walters , Yuan Xin

The 3D Ising model and the generalized free scalar of dimension at least 0.75 belong to a continuous line of nonlocal fixed points, each referred to as a long-range Ising model. They can be distinguished by the dimension of the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-25 Connor Behan

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

Celestial holography posits that the long-distance behavior of gauge and gravity theories is dictated by two-dimensional conformal field theories defined on the celestial sphere. For non-abelian gauge theories, this proposal is verified, to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-29 Lorenzo Magnea , Enrico Zunino

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 compute numerically the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several operators in the 3d Ising CFT, and then try to reverse-engineer the solution to crossing symmetry analytically. Our key tool is a set of new techniques for computing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-20 David Simmons-Duffin

We revisit the computation of instanton effects to various correlation functions in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM and clarify a controversy existing in the literature regarding their consistency with the OPE and conformal symmetry. To check these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Luis F. Alday , Gregory P. Korchemsky

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

We introduce a non-perturbative framework for computing structure constants of single-trace operators in the N=4 SYM theory at large N. Our approach features new vertices, with hexagonal shape, that can be patched together into three- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Benjamin Basso , Shota Komatsu , Pedro Vieira

We describe in detail the method used in our previous work arXiv:1611.10344 to study the Wilson-Fisher critical points nearby generalized free CFTs, exploiting the analytic structure of conformal blocks as functions of the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Ferdinando Gliozzi , Andrea L. Guerrieri , Anastasios C. Petkou , Congkao Wen

Three-dimensional Chern-Simons vector models display an approximate higher spin symmetry in the large $N$ limit. Their single-trace operators consist of a tower of weakly broken currents, as well as a scalar $\sigma$ of approximate twist…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Ofer Aharony , Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Ran Yacoby

We revisit the line of non-unitary theories that interpolate between the Virasoro minimal models. Numerical bootstrap applications have brought about interest in the four-point function involving the scalar primary of lowest dimension.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-08 Connor Behan

We study the correlation functions of logarithmic conformal field theories. First, assuming conformal invariance, we explicitly calculate two-- and three-- point functions. This calculation is done for the general case of more than one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 M. R. Rahimi Tabar , A. Aghamohammadi , M. Khorrami

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 work, we continue the investigation of correlation numbers in $\mathcal{N}=1$ super Minimal Liouville Gravity (SMLG), with physical fields in the Ramond sector. Building upon our previous construction of physical operators and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 Vladimir Belavin , Juan Ramos Cabezas , Boris Runov

The fundamental ingredients that build the observables in conformal field theory are the spectrum of operators and the OPE coefficients, or equivalently, the two- and three-point functions of the theory. Recently an inversion formula…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-06 Carlos Cardona

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