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We argue that all consistent 4D quantum field theories obey a spacetime-averaged weak energy inequality $\langle T^{00} \rangle \ge -C/L^4$, where $L$ is the size of the smearing region, and $C$ is a positive constant that depends on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prilepina

We determine, for the first time, the scaling dimensions of a family of fixed-charge operators stemming from the critical $O(N)$ model in 4-$\epsilon$ dimensions to the leading and next to leading order terms in the charge expansion but to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-09 Oleg Antipin , Jahmall Bersini , Francesco Sannino , Zhi-Wei Wang , Chen Zhang

We apply the large-charge expansion to O(N) vector models starting from first principles, focusing on the Wilson-Fisher point in three dimensions. We compute conformal dimensions at zero and finite temperature at fixed charge Q,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Luis Alvarez-Gaume , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

We present a general framework where the effective field theory of single field inflation is extended by the inclusion of operators with mass dimension 3 and 4 in the unitary gauge. These higher dimensional operators introduce quartic and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-06 Amjad Ashoorioon , Roberto Casadio , Michele Cicoli , Ghazal Geshnizjani , Hyung J. Kim

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

Recently it was shown that the scaling dimension of the operator $\phi^n$ in $\lambda(\phi^*\phi)^2$ theory may be computed semi-classically at the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in $d=4-\epsilon$, for generic values of $\lambda n$ and this was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 I. Jack , D. R. T Jones

Two and three-point functions of primary fields in four dimensional CFT have a simple space-time dependences factored out from the combinatoric structure which enumerates the fields and gives their couplings. This has led to the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-22 Robert de Mello Koch , Sanjaye Ramgoolam

What is the dimension of spacetime? We address this question in the context of the AdS/CFT Correspondence. We give a prescription for computing the number of large bulk dimensions, $D$, from strongly-coupled CFT$_d$ data, where "large"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-14 Luis F. Alday , Eric Perlmutter

In this review we study quantum field theories and conformal field theories with global symmetries in the limit of large charge for some of the generators of the symmetry group. At low energy the sectors of the theory with large charge are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 Luis Álvarez Gaumé , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert

We construct and investigate quantum fields induced on a d-dimensional dissipationless defect by bulk fields propagating in a (d+1)-dimensional space. All interactions are localized on the defect. We derive a unitary non-canonical quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Davide Fichera , Mihail Mintchev , Ettore Vicari

Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

The free Maxwell theory in D<>4 dimensions provides a physical example of a unitary, scale invariant theory which is NOT conformally invariant. The easiest way to see this is that the field strength operator F_mn is neither a primary nor a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Sheer El-Showk , Yu Nakayama , Slava Rychkov

We consider the further development of the formalism of the estimates of higher-order perturbative corrections in the Euclidean region, which is based on the application of the scheme-invariant methods, namely the principle of minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 A. L. Kataev , V. V. Starshenko

We give a non-perturbative proof that any 4D unitary and Lorentz-invariant quantum field theory with a conserved scale current is in fact conformally invariant. We show that any scale invariant theory (unitary or not) must have either a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-18 Kara Farnsworth , Markus A. Luty , Valentina Prelipina

We consider the large-charge expansion of the charged ground state of a Schrodinger-invariant, nonrelativistic conformal field theory in a harmonic trap, in general dimension d. In the existing literature, the energy in the trap has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-19 Simeon Hellerman , Ian Swanson

We examine two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) at central charge c=0. These arise typically in the description of critical systems with quenched disorder, but also in other contexts including dilute self-avoiding polymers and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

We provide the leading near conformal corrections on a cylinder to the scaling dimension $\Delta_Q^\ast$ of fixed isospin charge $Q$ operators defined at the lower boundary of the Quantum Chromodynamics conformal window: \begin{equation}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 Jahmall Bersini , Alessandra D'Alise , Clelia Gambardella , Francesco Sannino

Various aspects of the four point function for scalar fields in conformally invariant theories are analysed. This depends on an arbitrary function of two conformal invariants u,v. A recurrence relation for the function corresponding to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. A. Dolan , H. Osborn

In this letter we discuss the operator product expansion of scalar operators in five-dimensional field theories with an $SU(1,3)\times U(1)$ spacetime symmetry. Such theories arise by a novel conformal null reduction of six-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 N. Lambert , A. Lipstein , R. Mouland

We calculate the coefficients of operators with dimensions d <= 7 in the operator product expansion of correlators of q Gamma Q currents, for the effective field theory of an infinite-mass quark, Q. Exact two-loop results are obtained, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 D. J. Broadhurst , A. G. Grozin