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The subject of our study is the Kazhdan-Lusztig (KL) equivalence in the context of a one-parameter family of logarithmic CFTs based on Virasoro symmetry with the (1,p) central charge. All finite-dimensional indecomposable modules of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-16 P. V. Bushlanov , A. M. Gainutdinov , I. Yu. Tipunin

We study two-dimensional (4,4) superconformal field theories of central charge c=6, corresponding to nonlinear sigma models on K3 surfaces, using the superconformal bootstrap. This is made possible through a surprising relation between the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-13 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , David Simmons-Duffin , Yifan Wang , Xi Yin

We argue that the celestial conformal field theory exhibits patterns of a logarithmic conformal field theory. We uncover a Jordan block structure involving the celestial stress tensor and its logarithmic partner, a composite operator built…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-26 Adrien Fiorucci , Daniel Grumiller , Romain Ruzziconi

It is shown explicitly that the correlation functions of Conformal Field Theories (CFT) with the logarithmic operators are invariant under the differential realization of Borel subalgebra of $\W_\infty$-algebra. This algebra is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Shafiekhani , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

Logarithmic conformal field theories have a vast range of applications, from critical percolation to systems with quenched disorder. In this paper we thoroughly examine the structure of these theories based on their symmetry properties. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Matthijs Hogervorst , Miguel Paulos , Alessandro Vichi

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

The generic structure of 1-, 2- and 3-point functions of fields residing in indecomposable representations of arbitrary rank are given. These in turn determine the structure of the operator product expansion in logarithmic conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Flohr , Marco Krohn

We describe an approach to logarithmic conformal field theories as limits of sequences of ordinary conformal field theories with varying central charge c. Logarithmic behaviour arises from degeneracies in the spectrum of scaling dimensions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-25 John Cardy

In this article, certain indecomposable Virasoro modules are studied. Specifically, the Virasoro mode L_0 is assumed to be non-diagonalisable, possessing Jordan blocks of rank two. Moreover, the module is further assumed to have a highest…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Kalle Kytölä , David Ridout

The classification scheme for rational conformal field theories, given by the Mathur-Mukhi-Sen (MMS) program, identifies a rational conformal field theory by two numbers: $(n, l)$. $n$ is the number of characters of the rational conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Arpit Das , Chethan N. Gowdigere , Jagannath Santara

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

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

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

We investigate the admissible vector-valued modular forms having three independent characters and vanishing Wronskian index and determine which ones correspond to genuine 2d conformal field theories. This is done by finding bilinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-04 Arpit Das , Chethan N. Gowdigere , Sunil Mukhi

Conformal field theory (CFT) has become an active area of research beyond its origins in statistical physics and attracted much attention due to its intrinsic mathematical interest, which reveals deep connections with other diverse branches…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Bolin Han

Recently dilogarithm identities have made their appearance in the physics literature. These identities seem to allow to calculate structure constants like, in particular, the effective central charge of certain conformal field theories from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Michael Terhoeven

We use modular invariance to derive constraints on the spectrum of warped conformal field theories (WCFTs) --- nonrelativistic quantum field theories described by a chiral Virasoro and $U(1)$ Kac-Moody algebra. We focus on holographic WCFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-20 Luis Apolo , Wei Song

It is discussed how stochastic evolutions may be linked to logarithmic conformal field theory. This introduces an extension of the stochastic Loewner evolutions. Based on the existence of a logarithmic null vector in an indecomposable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Jorgen Rasmussen

Using the planar Temperley-Lieb algebra, critical bond percolation on the square lattice is incorporated as ${\cal LM}(2,3)$ in the family of Yang-Baxter integrable logarithmic minimal models ${\cal LM}(p,p')$. We consider this model in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Alexi Morin-Duchesne , Andreas Klümper , Paul A. Pearce

Key to the exact solubility of the unitary minimal models in two-dimensional conformal field theory is the organization of their Hilbert space into Verma modules, whereby all eigenstates of the Hamiltonian are obtained by the repeated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-07 Chun Chen , Joseph Maciejko