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We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories with flavor symmetry $\mathfrak{so}_{4k}$. We present evidence that minimal $(D_k, D_k)$ conformal matter saturates the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Florent Baume , Craig Lawrie

We formulate the conformal bootstrap approach to four--fermion theory at its strong coupling fixed point in dimensions $2<d<4$. We present a solution of the bootstrap equations in the five--vertex approximation. We show that the bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Chen , Yuri Makeenko , Gordon W Semenoff

The Potts conformal field theory is an analytic continuation in the central charge of conformal field theory describing the critical two-dimensional $Q$-state Potts model. Four-point functions of the Potts conformal field theory are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Rongvoram Nivesvivat

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

The numerical conformal bootstrap is used to study mixed correlators in $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. Systems of four-point functions involving scalar chiral and real operators are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , Andreas Stergiou

We use analytic bootstrap techniques for a CFT with an interface or a boundary. Exploiting the analytic structure of the bulk and boundary conformal blocks we extract the CFT data. We further constrain the CFT data by applying the equation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-21 Parijat Dey , Alexander Söderberg

In this note we report an improved determination of the scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients of the minimal supersymmetric extension of the 3d Ising model using the conformal bootstrap. We also show how this data can be used as input to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-04 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland , Junchen Rong , Ning Su

In this paper we deploy for the first time Reinforcement-Learning algorithms in the context of the conformal-bootstrap programme to obtain numerical solutions of conformal field theories (CFTs). As an illustration, we use a soft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Gergely Kántor , Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis

In this paper, we present a framework for the analytic bootstrap of three-point energy correlators, a crucial observable in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our approach combines spherical contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jianyu Gong , Andrzej Pokraka , Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

We initiate the bootstrap program for $\mathcal{N}=3$ superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in four dimensions. The problem is considered from two fronts: the protected subsector described by a $2d$ chiral algebra, and crossing symmetry for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli , Vladimir Mitev

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 define the two-dimensional $O(n)$ conformal field theory as a theory that includes the critical dilute and dense $O(n)$ models as special cases, and depends analytically on the central charge. For generic values of $n\in\mathbb{C}$, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Linnea Grans-Samuelsson , Rongvoram Nivesvivat , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Sylvain Ribault , Hubert Saleur

We investigate $O(N)$ boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with boundary interactions in $d=4-\epsilon$ and $d=3-\epsilon$ employing the analytic bootstrap. By deriving universal constraints on conformal data, we show that infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Given a conformal data on a flat Euclidean space, we use crosscap conformal bootstrap equations to numerically solve the Lee-Yang model as well as the critical Ising model on a three-dimensional real projective space. We check the rapid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Yu Nakayama

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 study the conformal bootstrap constraints for 3D conformal field theories with a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ or parity symmetry, assuming a single relevant scalar operator $\epsilon$ that is invariant under the symmetry. When there is additionally a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Alexander Atanasov , Aaron Hillman , David Poland

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

We explore the idea to bootstrap Feynman integrals using integrability. In particular, we put the recently discovered Yangian symmetry of conformal Feynman integrals to work. As a prototypical example we demonstrate that the D-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-20 Florian Loebbert , Dennis Müller , Hagen Münkler

Recently an efficient numerical method has been developed to implement the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity on the operator dimensions and OPE coefficients of conformal field theories (CFT) in diverse space-time dimensions. It…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Ferdinando Gliozzi

In this letter we study how the exact non-perturbative integrability methods in 4D N=4 Super-Yang-Mills can work efficiently together with the numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to go beyond the spectral observables and access…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti