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We continue our study of the defect CFT on a Maldacena-Wilson line in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory using Bootstrability -- the conformal bootstrap supplemented with exact integrability data. In this paper, we extend this program to charged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-19 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Julius Julius , Michelangelo Preti , Nika Sergeevna Sokolova

Unlike conformal boundary conditions, conformal defects of Virasoro minimal models lack classification. Alternatively to the defect perturbation theory and the truncated conformal space approach, we employ open string field theory (OSFT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-26 Kasia Budzik , Miroslav Rapcak , Jairo M. Rojas

In this work we report on a new bootstrap method for quantum mechanical problems that closely mirrors the setup from conformal field theory (CFT). We use the equations of motion to develop an analogue of the conformal block expansion for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Yuan Xin

The modern conformal bootstrap program often employs the method of linear functionals to derive the numerical or analytical bounds on the CFT data. These functionals must have a crucial "swapping" property, allowing to swap infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-11 Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

We implement the conformal bootstrap program for three-dimensional CFTs with $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry and find universal constraints on the spectrum of operator dimensions in these theories. By studying the bounds on the dimension of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-11 Nikolay Bobev , Sheer El-Showk , Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

We propose a strategy to study massive Quantum Field Theory (QFT) using conformal bootstrap methods. The idea is to consider QFT in hyperbolic space and study correlation functions of its boundary operators. We show that these are solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Miguel F. Paulos , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

We review the recent developments in the study of conformal field theories in generic space time dimensions using the methods of the conformal bootstrap, in its analytic aspect. These techniques are based solely on symmetries, in particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Agnese Bissi , Parijat Dey , Giulia Fardelli

The expectation value of a smooth conformal line defect in a CFT is a conformal invariant functional of its path in space-time. For example, in large $N$ holographic theories, these fundamental observables are dual to the open string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Barak Gabai , Amit Sever , De-liang Zhong

We clarify the relationships between different approaches to the conformal bootstrap. A central role is played by the so-called extremal functionals. They are linear functionals acting on the crossing equation which are directly responsible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-06 Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

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

Recent numerical results point to the existence of a conformally invariant twist defect in the critical 3d Ising model. In this note we show that this fact is supported by both epsilon expansion and conformal bootstrap calculations. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Davide Gaiotto , Dalimil Mazac , Miguel F. Paulos

In this thesis, we introduce new tools for the conformal bootstrap, autoboot and qboot. Each tool solves a different step in the whole computational stack, and combined with an existing efficient tool SDPB which solves semidefinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-09 Mocho Go

We use the conformal bootstrap program to derive necessary conditions for emergent symmetry enhancement from discrete symmetry (e.g. $\mathbb{Z}_n$) to continuous symmetry (e.g. $U(1)$) under the renormalization group flow. In three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

The single-correlator conformal bootstrap is solved numerically for several values of dimension 4>d>2 using the available SDPB and Extremal Functional methods. Critical exponents and other conformal data of low-lying states are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Andrea Cappelli , Lorenzo Maffi , Satoshi Okuda

Universality classes of non-unitary critical theories in two-dimensions are characterized by a dimensional number, termed central charge or conformal anomaly. Conformal invariance predicts that the leading finite-size correction to the free…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-27 Bo-Bo Wei

Three-dimensional theories with cubic symmetry are studied using the machinery of the numerical conformal bootstrap. Crossing symmetry and unitarity are imposed on a set of mixed correlators, and various aspects of the parameter space are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Recent programs on conformal bootstrap suggest an empirical relationship between the existence of non-trivial conformal field theories and non-trivial features such as a kink in the unitarity bound of conformal dimensions in the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Nakayama

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

We consider the problem of bounding CFT correlators on the Euclidean section. By reformulating the question as an optimization problem, we construct functionals numerically which determine upper and lower bounds on correlators under several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Miguel F. Paulos , Zechuan Zheng