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We investigate the structure of the constraints on three-point correlation functions emerging when conformal invariance is imposed in momentum space and in arbitrary space-time dimensions, presenting a derivation of their solutions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Claudio Coriano , Luigi Delle Rose , Emil Mottola , Mirko Serino

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 evaluate a four-loop conformal integral, i.e. an integral over four four-dimensional coordinates, by turning to its dimensionally regularized version and applying differential equations for the set of the corresponding 213 master…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Burkhard Eden , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We construct a conformal map from $\mathbb{R}^3$ to a three-dimensional spheriod, which includes $\mathbb{S}^3$, a double-cover of the 3-ball, and $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{S}^2$ as limiting cases. Using the data of the critical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-10-26 Daniel Berkowitz , George Fleming

We review conformal field theory on the plane in the conformal bootstrap approach. We introduce the main ideas of the bootstrap approach to quantum field theory, and how they apply to two-dimensional theories with local conformal symmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-21 Sylvain Ribault

We consider conformal four-point Feynman integrals to investigate how much of their mathematical structure in two spacetime dimensions carries over to higher dimensions. In particular, we discuss recursions in the loop order and spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-18 Florian Loebbert , Sven F. Stawinski

Conformal field theories play a central role in theoretical physics with many applications ranging from condensed matter to string theory. The conformal bootstrap studies conformal field theories using mathematical consistency conditions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-09 Johan Henriksson

The computational technique of $N$-fold Mellin-Barnes (MB) integrals, presented in a companion paper by the same authors, is used to derive sets of series representations of the massive one-loop conformal 3-point Feynman integral in various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 B. Ananthanarayan , Sumit Banik , Samuel Friot , Shayan Ghosh

We construct a crossing symmetric basis for conformal four-point functions in momentum space by requiring consistent factorization. Just as scattering amplitudes factorize when the intermediate particle is on-shell, non-analytic parts of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-10 Hiroshi Isono , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu

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 introduce PyCFTBoot, a wrapper designed to reduce the barrier to entry in conformal bootstrap calculations that require semidefinite programming. Symengine and SDPB are used for the most intensive symbolic and numerical steps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Connor Behan

In the realm of contemporary physics, the bootstrap method is typically associated with an optimization-based approach to problem-solving. This method leverages our understanding of a specific physical problem, which is used as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-02 Zechuan Zheng

We apply the analytic conformal bootstrap method to study weakly coupled conformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We employ twist conformal blocks to find the most general form of the one-loop four-point correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Johan Henriksson , Tomasz Lukowski

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity in general 3D Conformal Field Theories. In doing so we derive new results for conformal blocks appearing in four-point functions of scalars and present an efficient method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

The method of calculation of $\varepsilon$-expansion in model of scalar field with $\varphi^3$-interaction based on conformal bootstrap equations is proposed. This technique is based on self-consistent skeleton equations involving full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-11 Artem L Pismensky

This review aims to offer a pedagogical introduction to the analytic conformal bootstrap program via a journey through selected topics. We review analytic methods which include the large spin perturbation theory, Mellin space methods and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Agnese Bissi , Aninda Sinha , Xinan Zhou

Feynman diagrams are calculated by means of their Taylor series expansion in terms of external momenta squared. It is demonstrated in various examples that by the application of conformal mapping and Pad\'{e} approximants, it is possible to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Fleischer , O. V. Tarasov

Feynman integrals with generic propagator powers in one and two spacetime dimensions are investigated from various perspectives. In particular, we argue that the class of track integrals at any loop order is fixed by the recently found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Gwenaël Ferrando , Florian Loebbert , Amelie Pitters , Sven F. Stawinski

We provide a brief but self-contained review of two-dimensional conformal field theory, from the basic principles to some of the simplest models. From the representations of the Virasoro algebra on the one hand, and the state-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-14 Sylvain Ribault

In this paper, we Fourier transform the Wightman function concerning energy and angular momentum on the $S^{D-1}$ spatial slice in radial quantization in $D=2,3$ dimensions. In each case, we use the conformal Ward Identities to solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Kanade Nishikawa