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An explicit analytic formula is presented that computes the conformal (super-)block decomposition of any free scalar or half-BPS diagram in 1d, 2d or 4d CFTs, with various supersymmetries, including none. We prove our formula by exploiting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 F. Aprile , J. M. Drummond , P. J. Heslop , M. Santagata

We study the space of 3d ${\cal N} = 6$ SCFTs by combining numerical bootstrap techniques with exact results derived using supersymmetric localization. First we derive the superconformal block decomposition of the four-point function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Damon J. Binder , Shai M. Chester , Max Jerdee , Silviu S. Pufu

We study out-of-time ordered four-point functions in two dimensional conformal field theories by suitably analytically continuing the Euclidean correlator. For large central charge theories with a sparse spectrum, chaotic dynamics is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Chi-Ming Chang , David M. Ramirez , Mukund Rangamani

We prove that in any unitary CFT, a twist gap in the spectrum of operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalar primary operators (i.e. $\phi\times \phi$) implies the existence of a family of primary operators $\mathcal{O}_{\tau,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Sridip Pal , Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

We explore the connection between the operator product expansion (OPE) in the boundary and worldsheet conformal field theories in the context of AdS$_{d+1}$/CFT$_d$ correspondence. Considering single trace scalar operators in the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Sudip Ghosh , Sourav Sarkar , Mritunjay Verma

We develop new tools for isolating CFTs using the numerical bootstrap. A "cutting surface" algorithm for scanning OPE coefficients makes it possible to find islands in high-dimensional spaces. Together with recent progress in large-scale…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-06 Shai M. Chester , Walter Landry , Junyu Liu , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin , Ning Su , Alessandro Vichi

We present a new algorithm for the numerical evaluation of five-point conformal blocks in $d$-dimensions, greatly improving the efficiency of their computation. To do this we use an appropriate ansatz for the blocks as a series expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

Three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with slightly broken higher spin symmetry provide an interesting laboratory to study general properties of CFTs and their roles in the AdS/CFT correspondence. In this work we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-07 Zhijin Li

Working in the context of the proposed duality between 3D higher spin gravity and 2D W_N minimal model CFTs, we compute a class of four-point functions in the bulk and on the boundary, and demonstrate precise agreement between them. This is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter

We discuss further aspects of the higher spin dS/CFT correspondence. Using a recent result of Dunne and Kirsten, it is shown how to numerically compute the partition function of the free Sp(N) model for a large class of SO(3) preserving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Dionysios Anninos , Frederik Denef , George Konstantinidis , Edgar Shaghoulian

The Large Charge sector of Conformal Field Theory (CFT) can generically be described through a semiclassical expansion around a superfluid background. In this work, focussing on $U(1)$ invariant Wilson-Fisher fixed points, we study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Gil Badel , Alexander Monin , Riccardo Rattazzi

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of two identical scalar primary operators in the lightcone limit in a conformal field theory where a scalar is the operator with lowest twist. We see that in CFTs where both the stress tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-11 Atanu Bhatta , Soham Ray

We revisit the problem of interactions of higher-spin fields in flat space. We argue that all no-go theorems can be avoided by the light-cone approach, which results in more interaction vertices as compared to the usual covariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Dmitry Ponomarev , E. D. Skvortsov

An important part of a CFT four-point function, the stress tensor sector, comprises the exchanges of the stress tensor and its composites. The OPE coefficients of these multi-stress tensor operators and consequently, the complete stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

Given a critical quantum spin chain described by a conformal field theory (CFT) at long distances, it is crucial to understand the universal conformal data. One most important ingredient is the operator product expansion (OPE) coefficients,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-26 Yuhan Liu , Yijian Zou , Shinsei Ryu

We derive forms of light-state dominance for correlators in CFT$_d$, making precise the sense in which correlators can be approximated by the contribution of light operator exchanges. Our main result is that the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-13 Per Kraus , Allic Sivaramakrishnan

We study the conformal bootstrap for a 4-point function of fermions $\langle\psi\psi\psi\psi\rangle$ in 3D. We first introduce an embedding formalism for 3D spinors and compute the conformal blocks appearing in fermion 4-point functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-08 Luca Iliesiu , Filip Kos , David Poland , Silviu S. Pufu , David Simmons-Duffin , Ran Yacoby

We continue our study of multipoint correlators of scalar fields on the $1d$ defect CFT generated by inserting operators along the Maldacena-Wilson line in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM. We present a weak-coupling recursion relation that captures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-28 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Giulia Peveri

This note is an extension of a recent work on the analytical bootstrapping of $O(N)$ models. An additonal feature of the $O(N)$ model is that the OPE contains trace and antisymmetric operators apart from the symmetric-traceless objects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Parijat Dey , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen

We bootstrap tree-level supergravity four-point correlators on AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ with one external half-BPS double-particle operator and three half-BPS single-particle operators. Our only input is the consistency of the operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo , Joao Vilas Boas