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We elaborate on various aspects of the conformal field theory of the symmetric orbifold. We collect various results that have appeared in the literature, and we present a coherent picture of the operator content of this CFT, relying on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Konstantinos Roumpedakis

Warped conformal field theory (WCFT) is a two dimensional quantum field theory whose local symmetry algebra consists of a Virasoro algebra and a U(1) Kac-Moody algebra. In this paper, we study correlation functions for primary operators in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-11 Wei Song , Jianfei Xu

We investigate the constraints of crossing symmetry on CFT correlation functions. Four point conformal blocks are naturally viewed as functions on the upper-half plane, on which crossing symmetry acts by PSL(2,Z) modular transformations.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Gim Seng Ng

We use the multiscale entanglement renormalisation ansatz (MERA) to numerically investigate three critical quantum spin chains with Z_2 x Z_2 on-site symmetry: a staggered XXZ model, a transverse field cluster model, and the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-28 Jacob C. Bridgeman , Aroon O'Brien , Stephen D. Bartlett , Andrew C. Doherty

Quasi-primary correlators in two-dimensional conformal field theories deformed simultaneously by $T\bar T$ and root-$T\bar T$ are studied. A path-integral formulation motivated by the geometric realization of the combined deformation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Bo-Rui Li , Song He , Yu-Xiao Liu

Conformal block is a function of many variables, usually represented as a formal series, with coefficients which are certain matrix elements in the chiral (e.g. Virasoro) algebra. Non-perturbative conformal block is a multi-valued function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 H. Itoyama , A. Mironov , A. Morozov

We elaborate and extend the method of Wronskian differential equations for conformal blocks to compute four-point correlation functions on the plane for classes of primary fields in rational (and possibly more general) conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-02 Sunil Mukhi , Girish Muralidhara

AGT correspondence gives an explicit expressions for the conformal blocks of $d=2$ conformal field theory. Recently an explanation of this representation inside the CFT framework was given through the assumption about the existence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-13 A. Belavin , V. Belavin

Current studies of WN Toda field theory focus on correlation functions such that the WN highest-weight representations in the fusion channels are multiplicity-free. In this work, we study W3 Toda 4-point functions with multiplicity in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-13 Vladimir Belavin , Benoit Estienne , Omar Foda , Raoul Santachiara

We consider the conformal blocks in the theories with extended conformal W-symmetry for the integer Virasoro central charges. We show that these blocks for the generalized twist fields on sphere can be computed exactly in terms of the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 P. Gavrylenko , A. Marshakov

We analytically determine the large central charge asymptotic expansion of the Virasoro conformal blocks entering in four-point functions with external degenerate operators on a sphere in $2d$ CFTs, and study its resurgence properties as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-23 Agnese Bissi , Nicola Dondi , Alessandro Piazza , Tomas Reis , Marco Serone

We study CFT$_2$ Virasoro conformal blocks of the 4-point correlation function $\langle \mathcal{O}_L \mathcal{O}_H \mathcal{O}_H \mathcal{O}_H \rangle $ with three background operators $\mathcal{O}_H$ and one perturbative operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 K. B. Alkalaev , Mikhail Pavlov

We study the Virasoro conformal block decomposition of the genus two partition function of a two-dimensional CFT by expanding around a Z3-invariant Riemann surface that is a three-fold cover of the Riemann sphere branched at four points,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Minjae Cho , Scott Collier , Xi Yin

We find a simple relation between two-dimensional BPS N=2 superconformal blocks and bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks, which allows us to analyze the crossing equations for BPS 4-point functions in unitary (2,2) superconformal theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We investigate Fuchsian equations arising in the context of 2-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) and we apply the Katz theory of Fucshian rigid systems to solve some of these equations. We show that the Katz theory provides a precise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Vladimir Belavin , Yoshishige Haraoka , Raoul Santachiara

We continue to investigate the dual description of the Virasoro conformal blocks arising in the framework of the classical limit of the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence. To give such an interpretation in previous studies, certain restrictions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 V. A. Belavin , R. V. Geiko

In this paper, we attempt to explore the landscape of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) by efficiently searching for numerical solutions to the modular bootstrap equation using machine-learning-style optimization. The torus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nathan Benjamin , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Wei Li , Jesse Thaler

We work out all of the details required for implementation of the conformal bootstrap program applied to the four-point function of two scalars and two vectors in an abstract conformal field theory in arbitrary dimension. This includes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Fernando Rejon-Barrera , Daniel Robbins

We study four-point functions of critical percolation in two dimensions, and more generally of the Potts model. We propose an exact ansatz for the spectrum: an infinite, discrete and non-diagonal combination of representations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-20 Marco Picco , Sylvain Ribault , Raoul Santachiara

We study the kinematics of correlation functions of local and extended operators in a conformal field theory. We present a new method for constructing the tensor structures associated to primary operators in an arbitrary bosonic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Edoardo Lauria , Marco Meineri , Emilio Trevisani