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We study the two-point function of local operators in the critical O(N) model in the presence of a magnetic field localized on a line. We use a recently developed conformal dispersion relation to compute the correlator at first order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Lorenzo Bianchi , Davide Bonomi , Elia de Sabbata

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

Operator product expansion (OPE) of two operators in two-dimensional conformal field theory includes a sum over Virasoro descendants of other operator with universal coefficients, dictated exclusively by properties of the Virasoro algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-07 A. Mironov , Al. Morozov , And. Morozov

We explore the consequences of conformal symmetry for the operator product expansions in nonrelativistic field theories. Similar to the relativistic case, the OPE coefficients of descendants are related to that of the primary. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Siavash Golkar , Dam T. Son

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

In this research announcement, we show that SLE curves can in fact be viewed as boundaries of certain simple Poissonian percolation clusters: Recall that the Brownian loop-soup (introduced in the paper arxiv:math.PR/0304419 with Greg…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Wendelin Werner

We study a fourth-order derivative scalar field configuration in a fixed Lifshitz background. Using an auxiliary field we rewrite the equations of motion as two coupled second order equations. We specialize to the limit that the mass of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Sjoerd de Haan , Wout Merbis , Jan Rosseel

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap in two dimensions to search for finite, closed sub-algebras of the operator product expansion (OPE), without assuming unitarity. We find the minimal models as special cases, as well as additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ilya Esterlis , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , David Ramirez

Virasoro conformal blocks are fixed in principle by symmetry, but a closed-form expression is unknown in the general case. In this work, we provide three closed-form expansions for the four-point Virasoro blocks on the sphere, for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Eric Perlmutter

The Euclidean Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space provides a natural framework for studying boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We analyze the conformal boundary conditions of the critical O$(N)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$ dimensions using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Simone Giombi , Zimo Sun

The representation theories of the SU(2)$_k$-extended $N$=4 superconformal algebras (SCAs) with $arbitrary$ level $k$ are developed being based on their Feigin-Fuchs representations found recently by the present author. A basic unit of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Satoshi Matsuda

We continue the study of model-independent constraints on the unitary Conformal Field Theories in 4-Dimensions, initiated in arXiv:0807.0004. Our main result is an improved upper bound on the dimension \Delta of the leading scalar operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Vyacheslav S. Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

We introduce a method for computing conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations in any spacetime dimension, making it possible to apply bootstrap techniques to operators with spin. The key idea is to implement the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-23 David Simmons-Duffin

$O(n) \times O(m)$ symmetric Landau-Ginzburg models in $d=3$ dimension possess a rich structure of the renormalization group and its understanding offers a theoretical prediction of the phase diagram in frustrated spin models with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-09 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

We study bulk locality in a scalar effective field theory (EFT) in AdS background in presence of an end-of-the-world (EOW) brane. The holographic dual description is given in terms of a boundary conformal field theory (BCFT). We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey , Dipyendu Dhar

We consider a higher derivative scalar field theory in the presence of a boundary and a classically marginal interaction. We first investigate the free limit where the scalar obeys the square of the Klein-Gordon equation. In precisely $d=6$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Christopher P. Herzog , Yanjun Zhou

In two-dimensional models of critical non-intersecting loops, there are $\ell$-leg fields that insert $\ell\in\mathbb{N}^*$ open loop segments, and diagonal fields that change the weights of closed loops. We conjecture an exact formula for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Rongvoram Nivesvivat , Sylvain Ribault , Paul Roux

We identify the maximal chiral algebra of conformal cyclic orbifolds. In terms of this extended algebra, the orbifold is a rational and diagonal conformal field theory, provided the mother theory itself is also rational and diagonal. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We develop the theory of irregular conformal blocks of the Virasoro algebra. In previous studies, expansions of irregular conformal blocks at regular singular points were obtained as degeneration limits of regular conformal blocks; however,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Hajime Nagoya

We implement the conformal bootstrap for N=4 superconformal field theories in four dimensions. Consistency of the four-point function of the stress-energy tensor multiplet imposes significant upper bounds for the scaling dimensions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-22 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees