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Boundaries not only are fundamental elements in nearly all realistic physical systems, but also greatly enrich the structure of quantum field theories. In this paper, we demonstrate that conformal field theory (CFT) with a boundary, known…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Zheng Zhou , Yijian Zou

Interface localised interactions are studied for multiscalar universality classes accessible with the perturbative $\varepsilon$ expansion in $4-\varepsilon$ dimensions. The associated beta functions at one loop and partially at two loops…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Sabine Harribey , William H. Pannell , Andreas Stergiou

Recently, boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) have attracted much attention in the context of quantum gravity. This is because a BCFT can be dual to gravity coupled to a heat bath CFT, known as the island model. On this background, it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Yuya Kusuki

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

Using the numerical modular bootstrap, we constrain the space of 1+1d CFTs with a finite non-invertible global symmetry described by a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$. We derive universal and rigorous upper bounds on the lightest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

We introduce a new numerical algorithm based on semidefinite programming to efficiently compute bounds on operator dimensions, central charges, and OPE coefficients in 4D conformal and N=1 superconformal field theories. Using our algorithm,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-31 David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

We develop an algebraic approach to the analytic bootstrap in CFTs. By acting with the Casimir operator on the crossing equation we map the problem of doing large spin sums to any desired order to the problem of solving a set of recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 Luis F. Alday , Alexander Zhiboedov

We derive a universal asymptotic formula for generic boundary conditions for the average value of the bulk-to-boundary and boundary Operator Product Expansion coefficients of any unitary, compact two-dimensional Boundary CFT (BCFT) with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Tokiro Numasawa , Ioannis Tsiares

We study the conformal bootstrap of 1D CFTs on the straight Maldacena-Wilson line in 4D ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. We introduce an improved truncation scheme with an 'OPE tail' approximation and use it to reproduce the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-06 V. Niarchos , C. Papageorgakis , P. Richmond , A. G. Stapleton , M. Woolley

We present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain OPE coefficients, we find a plethora of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Matthew S. Mitchell

We describe in more detail our approach to the conformal bootstrap which uses the Mellin representation of $CFT_d$ four point functions and expands them in terms of crossing symmetric combinations of $AdS_{d+1}$ Witten exchange functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Rajesh Gopakumar , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

We study four-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with an abelian $U(1)$ global symmetry using the conformal bootstrap approach. We obtain numerical bounds on the scaling dimensions of low-lying operators, the stress-tensor central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Andrea Manenti , Marten Reehorst , Alessandro Vichi

Crossing symmetry (CS) is the main tool in the bootstrap program applied to CFT models. This consists in an equality which imposes restrictions on the CFT data of a model, i.e, the OPE coefficients and the conformal dimensions. Reflection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-24 Leandro Lanosa , Mauricio Leston , Mario Passaglia

We numerically study the crossing symmetry constraints in 4D CFTs, using previously introduced algorithms based on semidefinite programming. We study bounds on OPE coefficients of tensor operators as a function of their scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Caracciolo , Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

We study the conformal bootstrap for 3D CFTs with O(N) global symmetry. We obtain rigorous upper bounds on the scaling dimensions of the first O(N) singlet and symmetric tensor operators appearing in the $\phi_i \times \phi_j$ OPE, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-16 Filip Kos , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

We present a collection of numerical bootstrap computations for 3d CFTs with a U(1) global symmetry. We test the accuracy of our method and fix conventions through a computation of bounds on the OPE coefficients for low-lying operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-28 Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall , Christopher P. Herzog , Vladimir Schaub

We provide an effective solution of the 1D crossing equation. We begin by arguing that crossing constraints can be recast in terms of bases of sum rules associated to special sets of CFT data -- extremal solutions -- which solve these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-15 Kausik Ghosh , Miguel F. Paulos , Noé Suchel

We develop new tools for isolating CFTs using the numerical bootstrap. A "cutting surface" algorithm for scanning OPE coefficients makes it possible to find islands in high-dimensional spaces. Together with recent progress in large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-06 Shai M. Chester , Walter Landry , Junyu Liu , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Ning Su , Alessandro Vichi

Using the fact that flat space with a boundary is related by a Weyl transformation to anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, one may study observables in boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) by placing a CFT in AdS. In addition to correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani

We study the contact terms that appear in the correlation functions of exactly marginal operators using the AdS/CFT correspondence. It is known that CFT with an exactly marginal deformation requires the existence of the contact terms with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Tadakatsu Sakai , Masashi Zenkai