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We derive a generating function for all the 3-point functions of higher spin conserved currents in four dimensional conformal field theory. The resulting expressions have a rather surprising factorized form which suggest that they can all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Yassen S. Stanev

Defects in conformal field theories are interesting objects to study from both formal and applied points of view. In this paper, we construct conformal defects in free scalar field CFTs in diverse dimensions. After discussing the possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-15 Vladimir Bashmakov , Jacopo Sisti

We consider a 2-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) obtained from twisted compactification of the 4-dimensional N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on a Riemann surface with boundary. We find the boundary conditions to preserve some of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-25 Koichi Nagasaki , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We investigate multi-field multicritical scalar theories using CFT constraints on two- and three-point functions combined with the Schwinger-Dyson equation. This is done in general and without assuming any symmetry for the models, which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Alessandro Codello , Mahmoud Safari , Gian Paolo Vacca , Omar Zanusso

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with $U(m)\times U(n)$ global symmetry in $d=3$ dimensions have been studied for years due to their potential relevance to the chiral phase transition of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this work such CFTs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

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

We formulate two-dimensional rational conformal field theory as a natural generalization of two-dimensional lattice topological field theory. To this end we lift various structures from complex vector spaces to modular tensor categories.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Fuchs , I. Runkel , C. Schweigert

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

Any N=2 superconformal field theory (SCFT) in four dimensions has a sector of operators related to a two-dimensional chiral algebra containing a Virasoro sub-algebra. Moreover, there are well-known examples of isolated SCFTs whose chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Matthew Buican , Takahiro Nishinaka

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

First steps are taken in a project to construct a general class of conformal and perhaps, eventually, non-conformal quantum field theories of (n-1)-dimensional extended objects in a d=2n dimensional conformal space-time manifold M. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-12 Daniel Friedan

A concise review of the notions of elliptic functions, modular forms, and theta-functions is provided, devoting most of the paper to applications to Conformal Field Theory (CFT), introduced within the axiomatic framework of quantum field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay M. Nikolov , Ivan T. Todorov

We discuss two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) which are invariant under gauging a non-invertible global symmetry. At every point on the orbifold branch of $c=1$ CFTs, it is known that the theory is self-dual under gauging a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-04 Yichul Choi , Da-Chuan Lu , Zhengdi Sun

We continue to investigate properties of the worldsheet conformal field theories (CFTs) which are conjectured to be dual to free large N gauge theories, using the mapping of Feynman diagrams to the worldsheet suggested in hep-th/0504229.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ofer Aharony , Justin R. David , Rajesh Gopakumar , Zohar Komargodski , Shlomo S. Razamat

Carrollian Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have been proposed as co-dimension one holographic duals to asymptotically flat spacetimes as opposed to Celestial CFTs which are co-dimension two. In this paper, drawing inspiration from Celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Arjun Bagchi , Prateksh Dhivakar , Sudipta Dutta

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge Q can be deformed into compressible phases by modifying their Hamiltonian, H, by a chemical potential H -> H - \mu Q. We study 2+1 dimensional CFTs upon which an explicit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-11 Subir Sachdev

We develop an analytic approach to the four-point crossing equation in CFT, for general spacetime dimension. In a unitary CFT, the crossing equation (for, say, the s- and t-channel expansions) can be thought of as a vector equation in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-13 Dalimil Mazac , Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

We construct classical theories for scalar fields in arbitrary Carroll spacetimes that are invariant under Carrollian diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations. When the local symmetries are gauge fixed these theories become Carrollian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Nishant Gupta , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We consider the momentum-space 3-point correlators of currents, stress tensors and marginal scalar operators in general odd-dimensional conformal field theories. We show that the flat space limit of these correlators is spanned by gauge and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-22 Joseph A. Farrow , Arthur E. Lipstein , Paul McFadden