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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

We initiate the classification of unitary superconformal defects in unitary superconformal field theories (SCFT) of diverse spacetime dimensions $3\leq d \leq 6$. Our method explores general constraints from the defect superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Nathan B. Agmon , Yifan Wang

This paper explores the numerical conformal bootstrap in general spacetime dimensions through the lens of a distinct category of analytic functionals, previously employed in two-dimensional studies. We extend the application of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-30 Kausik Ghosh , Zechuan Zheng

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

We study analytically the constraints of the conformal bootstrap on the low-lying spectrum of operators in field theories with global conformal symmetry in one and two spacetime dimensions. We introduce a new class of linear functionals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Dalimil Mazac

We study multiscalar theories with $\text{O}(N) \times \text{O}(2)$ symmetry. These models have a stable fixed point in $d$ dimensions if $N$ is greater than some critical value $N_c(d)$. Previous estimates of this critical value from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-19 Marten Reehorst , Slava Rychkov , Benoit Sirois , Balt C. van Rees

This paper focuses on the analysis of $4d$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal theories in the presence of a defect from the point of view of the conformal bootstrap. We will concentrate first on the case of codimension one, where the defect is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Pedro Liendo , Carlo Meneghelli

We explore the connection between the global symmetry quantum numbers of line defects and 't Hooft anomalies. Relative to local (point) operators, line defects may transform projectively under both internal and spacetime symmetries. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-01 T. Daniel Brennan , Clay Cordova , Thomas T. Dumitrescu

Conformal defects -- extended objects in conformal field theories -- carry localised excitations inherited from symmetry currents, known as the displacements and tilts. They capture the linear response of the defect to deformations of its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Nadav Drukker , Ziwen Kong , Petr Kravchuk

We study symmetry-breaking line defects in the Wilson-Fisher theory with $O(2N+1)$ global symmetry near four dimensions and symmetry-preserving surface defects in a cubic model with $O(2N)$ global symmetry near six dimensions. We introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

This paper studies magnetic line defects in the Wilson-Fisher $O(N)$ model. A powerful method to probe the system is to consider mixed two-point functions of the order parameter and the energy operator in the presence of the defect. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Aleix Gimenez-Grau

We explore constraints on (1+1)$d$ unitary conformal field theory with an internal $\mathbb{Z}_N$ global symmetry, by bounding the lightest symmetry-preserving scalar primary operator using the modular bootstrap. Among the other constraints…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-09 Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao

We study the numerical bounds obtained using a conformal-bootstrap method - advocated in ref. [1] but never implemented so far - where different points in the plane of conformal cross ratios $z$ and $\bar z$ are sampled. In contrast to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-04 Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

We study the defect CFT associated with the half-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions. Using a perturbative bootstrap approach, we derive new analytical results for multipoint correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Daniele Artico , Julien Barrat , Giulia Peveri

This is the first of a series of two papers in which we study the one-dimensional defect CFT defined by insertions of local operators along a $\tfrac{1}{2}$-BPS Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. In this first paper we focus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-23 Pietro Ferrero , Carlo Meneghelli

We apply analytic conformal bootstrap ideas in Mellin space to conformal field theories with $O(N)$ symmetry and cubic anisotropy. We write down the conditions arising from the consistency between the operator product expansion and crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-12 Parijat Dey , Apratim Kaviraj , Aninda Sinha

We study scalar conformal field theories whose large $N$ spectrum is fixed by the operator dimensions of either Ising model or Lee-Yang edge singularity. Using numerical bootstrap to study CFTs with $S_N\otimes Z_2$ symmetry, we find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-17 Junchen Rong , Ning Su

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with MN and tetragonal global symmetry in $d=2+1$ dimensions are relevant for structural, antiferromagnetic and helimagnetic phase transitions in a wide class of materials. The study of these theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-23 Andreas Stergiou

We consider a conformal field theory in the presence of a boundary, and explain how two-point correlators of mixed bulk-local operators can be bootstrapped by exploiting the analytical structure of the conformal blocks. This yields the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Alexander Söderberg Rousu

We define the two-dimensional $O(n)$ conformal field theory as a theory that includes the critical dilute and dense $O(n)$ models as special cases, and depends analytically on the central charge. For generic values of $n\in\mathbb{C}$, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Linnea Grans-Samuelsson , Rongvoram Nivesvivat , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Sylvain Ribault , Hubert Saleur