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In this paper, we use crossing symmetry and unitarity constraints to put a lower bound on the central charge of conformal field theories in large space-time dimensions $D$. Specifically, we work with the four-point function of identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Abhijit Gadde , Mrunmay Jagadale , Shraiyance Jain , Trakshu Sharma

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) are special classes of quantum field theories that find applications ranging from critical phenomena to theories of quantum gravity via holography. Understanding thermal effects in CFTs is crucial:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Miscioscia

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 study a three dimensional conformal field theory in terms of its partition function on arbitrary curved spaces. The large $N$ limit of the nonlinear sigma model at the non-trivial fixed point is shown to be an example of a conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Guruswamy , S. G. Rajeev , P. Vitale

In large part, the future utility of modern numerical conformal bootstrap depends on its ability to accurately predict the existence of hitherto unknown non-trivial conformal field theories (CFTs). Here we investigate the extent to which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-31 Matthew T. Dowens , Chris A. Hooley

The behavior of many critical phenomena at large distances is expected to be invariant under the full conformal group, rather than only isometries and scale transformations. When studying critical phenomena, approximations are often…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Santiago Cabrera , Gonzalo De Polsi , Nicolás Wschebor

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

A tensorial representation of $\phi^4$ field theory introduced in Phys. Rev. D. 93, 085005 (2016) is studied close to six dimensions, with an eye towards a possible realization of an interacting conformal field theory in five dimensions. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Dietrich Roscher , Igor F. Herbut

Two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) has several sources: the search for simple examples of quantum field theory, the description of surface critical phenomena, the study of (super)string vacua. In the present overview of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 I. T. Todorov

The Cubic CFT can be understood as the O(3) invariant CFT perturbed by a slightly relevant operator. In this paper, we use conformal perturbation theory together with the conformal data of the O(3) vector model to compute the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-03 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

Conformal field theory (CFT) is the key to various critical phenomena. So far, most of studies focus on the critical exponents of various universalities, corresponding to conformal dimensions of CFT primary fields. However, other important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-02 Liangdong Hu , Yin-Chen He , W. Zhu

We investigate the conformal bootstrap approach to $O(N)$ symmetric CFTs in five dimension with particular emphasis on the lower bound on the current central charge. The bound has a local minimum for all $N>1$, and in the large $N$ limit we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-07 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

We revisit the scalar $O(N)$ model in the dimension range $4<d<6$ and study the effects caused by its metastability. As shown in previous work, this model formally possesses a fixed point where, perturbatively in the $1/N$ expansion, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-22 Simone Giombi , Richard Huang , Igor R. Klebanov , Silviu S. Pufu , Grigory Tarnopolsky

The tricritical Ising CFT is the IR fixed-point of $\lambda\phi^6$ theory. It can be seen as a one-parameter family of CFTs connecting between an $\varepsilon$-expansion near the upper critical dimension 3 and the exactly solved minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Johan Henriksson

We revisit the classic $O(N)$ symmetric scalar field theories in $d$ dimensions with interaction $(\phi^i \phi^i)^2$. For $2<d<4$ these theories flow to the Wilson-Fisher fixed points for any $N$. A standard large $N$ Hubbard-Stratonovich…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Lin Fei , Simone Giombi , Igor R. Klebanov

The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE coefficients of local operators. To shed light on this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-28 Connor Behan

Thanks to the impressive progress of conformal bootstrap methods we have now very precise estimates of both scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients for several 3D universality classes. We show how to use this information to obtain similarly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-28 Michele Caselle , Gianluca Costagliola , Nicodemo Magnoli

We study the tricritical Ising universality class using conformal bootstrap techniques. By studying bootstrap constraints originating from multiple correlators on the CFT data of multiple OPEs, we are able to determine the scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-11 Chethan N Gowdigere , Jagannath Santara , Sumedha

We use the conformal bootstrap to study conformal field theories with $O(N)$ global symmetry in $d=5$ and $d=5.95$ spacetime dimensions that have a scalar operator $\phi_i$ transforming as an $O(N)$ vector. The crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

We study behaviour of the critical $O(N)$ vector model with quartic interaction in $2 \leq d \leq 6$ dimensions to the next-to-leading order in the large-$N$ expansion. We derive and perform consistency checks that provide an evidence for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Mikhail Goykhman , Michael Smolkin