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We exploit null vectors of the fractional Virasoro algebra of the symmetric product orbifold to compute correlation functions of twist fields in the large $N$ limit. This yields a new method to derive correlation functions in these orbifold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 Andrea Dei , Lorenz Eberhardt

We revisit the critical two-dimensional Ashkin-Teller model, i.e. the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ orbifold of the compactified free boson CFT at $c=1$. We solve the model on the plane by computing its three-point structure constants and proving crossing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Nikita Nemkov , Sylvain Ribault

We consider the Wilson line networks of the Chern-Simons $3d$ gravity theory with toroidal boundary conditions which calculate global conformal blocks of degenerate quasi-primary operators in torus $2d$ CFT. After general discussion that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 K. B. Alkalaev , V. A. Belavin

We show that in 2d CFTs at large central charge, the coupling of the stress tensor to heavy operators can be re-absorbed by placing the CFT in a non-trivial background metric. This leads to a more precise computation of the Virasoro…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-08 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Matthew T. Walters

We calculate numerically the torus one-point string diagram in the two-dimensional string cosmology background by decomposing the one-point functions in $c=1$ and $c=25$ Liouville CFT into torus one-point Virasoro conformal blocks and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Victor A. Rodriguez

In this paper, we attempt to explore the landscape of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) by efficiently searching for numerical solutions to the modular bootstrap equation using machine-learning-style optimization. The torus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Nathan Benjamin , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Wei Li , Jesse Thaler

We derive an explicit expression for the $1/c$ contribution to the Virasoro blocks in 2D CFT in the limit of large $c$ with fixed values of the operators' dimensions. We follow the direct approach of orthonormalising, at order $1/c$, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Alessandro Bombini , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo

We discuss the structure of 2D conformal field theories (CFT) at central charge c=0 describing critical disordered systems, polymers and percolation. We construct a novel extension of the c=0 Virasoro algebra, characterized by a number b…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

We study Virasoro minimal-model 4-point conformal blocks on the sphere and 0-point conformal blocks on the torus (the Virasoro characters), as solutions of Zamolodchikov-type recursion relations. In particular, we study the singularities…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-30 Nina Javerzat , Raoul Santachiara , Omar Foda

We study four types of one-point torus blocks arising in the large central charge regime. According to different limits of conformal dimensions we distinguish between the global block, the light block, the heavy-light block, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 K. B. Alkalaev , R. V. Geiko , V. A. Rappoport

We examine two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) at central charge c=0. These arise typically in the description of critical systems with quenched disorder, but also in other contexts including dilute self-avoiding polymers and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

Virasoro conformal blocks are universal ingredients of correlation functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs) with Virasoro symmetry. It is acknowledged that in the (classical) limit of large central charge of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 M. R. Piatek , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. Puente , A. R. Pietrykowski

We consider the conformal $A_{n}$ Toda theory in AdS$_{2}$. Due to the bulk full Virasoro symmetry, this system provides an instance of a non-gravitational $\text{AdS}_{2}$/$\text{CFT}_{1}$ correspondence where the 1d boundary theory enjoys…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Matteo Beccaria , Giulio Landolfi

We develop a recursive approach to computing Neveu-Schwarz conformal blocks associated with n-punctured Riemann surfaces. This work generalizes the results of [1] obtained recently for the Virasoro algebra. The method is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 V. A. Belavin , R. V. Geiko

Virasoro conformal blocks are fixed in principle by symmetry, but a closed-form expression is unknown in the general case. In this work, we provide three closed-form expansions for the four-point Virasoro blocks on the sphere, for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Eric Perlmutter

Recursion relations for the sphere $4$-point and torus $1$-point ${\cal W}_3$ conformal blocks, generalizing Alexei Zamolodchikov's famous relation for the Virasoro conformal blocks are proposed. One of these relations is valid for any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-17 Rubik Poghossian

We introduce a framework for two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) in the language of analytic number theory. Attached to the torus partition function of every two-dimensional CFT is a self-dual, degree-4 $L$-function of root number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-29 Eric Perlmutter

The goal of this paper is to study the representation theory of a classical infinite-dimensional Lie algebra - the Lie algebra of vector fields on an N-dimensional torus for N > 1. The case N=1 gives a famous Virasoro algebra (or its…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-09-01 Yuly Billig , Vyacheslav Futorny

We show that in critical loop models, torus 1-point functions can be expressed in terms of sphere 4-point functions at a different central charge. Unlike in the Moore--Seiberg formalism, crossing symmetry on the sphere therefore implies…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Paul Roux , Sylvain Ribault , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen

We consider the theory of multicomponent free massless fermions in two dimensions and use it for construction of representations of W-algebras at integer Virasoro central charges. We define the vertex operators in this theory in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 P. Gavrylenko , A. Marshakov
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