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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

Various observables in compact CFTs are required to obey positivity, discreteness, and integrality. Positivity forms the crux of the conformal bootstrap, but understanding of the abstract implications of discreteness and integrality for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Justin Kaidi , Eric Perlmutter

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 conformal bootstrap in fractional space-time dimensions, obtaining rigorous bounds on operator dimensions. Our results show strong evidence that there is a family of unitary CFTs connecting the 2D Ising model, the 3D Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 S. El-Showk , M. Paulos , D. Poland , S. Rychkov , D. Simmons-Duffin , A. Vichi

We use large spin perturbation theory and the Lorentzian inversion formula to compute order-$\varepsilon$ corrections to mixed correlators in the $O(n)$ Wilson-Fisher CFT in $4 - \varepsilon$ dimensions. In particular, we find the scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-10 Francesco Bertucci , Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

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

We consider the bulk $\phi^3$ deformation of the free boundary conformal field theory in the $\epsilon$ expansion. We determine the leading corrections to the scaling dimensions of boundary fundamental operators and some boundary operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Yongwei Guo , Wenliang Li

We develop an approach to construct local bulk operators in a CFT to order $1/N^2$. Since 4-point functions are not fixed by conformal invariance we use the OPE to categorize possible forms for a bulk operator. Using previous results on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz

We introduce analytic functionals which act on the crossing equation for CFTs in arbitrary spacetime dimension. The functionals fully probe the constraints of crossing symmetry on the first sheet, and are in particular sensitive to the OPE,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Miguel F. Paulos

We apply the method of the large spin bootstrap to analyse fermionic conformal field theories with weakly broken higher spin symmetry. Through the study of correlators of composite operators, we find the anomalous dimensions and OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Mark van Loon

Motivated by applications to the study of ultracold atomic gases near the unitarity limit, we investigate the structure of the operator product expansion (OPE) in non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs). The main tool used in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Walter D. Goldberger , Zuhair U. Khandker , Siddharth Prabhu

We apply analytic bootstrap techniques to the four-point correlator of fundamental fields in the Wilson-Fisher model. In an $\epsilon$-expansion crossing symmetry fixes the double discontinuity of the correlator in terms of CFT data at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Luis F. Alday , Johan Henriksson , Mark van Loon

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 use modern bootstrap techniques to study half-BPS line defects in 4d N=4 superconformal theories. Specifically, we consider the 1d CFT with OSP(4*|4) superconformal symmetry living on such a defect. Our analysis is general and based only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

Under the assumption that degenerate fields exist, diagonal CFTs such as Liouville theory can be solved analytically using the conformal bootstrap method. Here we generalize this approach to non-diagonal CFTs, i.e. CFTs whose primary fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Santiago Migliaccio , Sylvain Ribault

We use the conformal bootstrap approach to explore $5D$ CFTs with $O(N)$ global symmetry, which contain $N$ scalars $\phi_i$ transforming as $O(N)$ vector. Specifically, we study multiple four-point correlators of the leading $O(N)$ vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Zhijin Li , Ning Su

The existence of a positive linear functional acting on the space of (differences between) conformal blocks has been shown to rule out regions in the parameter space of conformal field theories (CFTs). We argue that at the boundary of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos

We formally extend the CFT techniques introduced in arXiv:1505.00963, to $\phi^{\frac{2d_0}{d_0-2}}$ theory in $d=d_0-\epsilon$ dimensions and use it to compute anomalous dimensions near $d_0=3, 4$ in a unified manner. We also do a similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-23 Pallab Basu , Chethan Krishnan

We develop an analytic approach to Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT), focussing on the two-point function of a general pair of scalar primary operators. The resulting crossing equation can be thought of as a vector equation in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou