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We apply numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to the four-point function of a Weyl spinor in 4d non-supersymmetric CFTs. We find universal bounds on operator dimensions and OPE coefficients, including bounds on operators in mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-19 Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk , Marco Serone , Alessandro Vichi

We analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on the four-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet of ${\cal N}=8$ superconformal field theories in three dimensions. We first derive the superconformal blocks by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Shai M. Chester , Jaehoon Lee , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

Recently, the conformal-bootstrap has been successfully used to obtain generic bounds on the spectrum and OPE coefficients of unitary conformal field theories. In practice, these bounds are obtained by assuming the existence of a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Micha Berkooz , Ran Yacoby , Amir Zait

We consider conformal defects with spins under the rotation group acting on the transverse directions. They are described in the embedding space formalism in a similar manner to spinning local operators, and their correlation functions with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-30 Nozomu Kobayashi , Tatsuma Nishioka

We develop techniques useful for obtaining conformal blocks in embedding space. We construct a unique differential operator in embedding space and use it to construct a function that will be an important ingredient in assembling conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-25 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

We derive a compact analytic formula for a complete basis of conformally invariant tensor structures for three-point functions of conserved operators in arbitrary 4D Lorentz representations. The construction follows directly from a novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Paul Heslop , Hector Puerta Ramisa

The existence of a positive linear functional acting on the space of (differences between) conformal blocks has been shown to rule out regions in the parameter space of conformal field theories (CFTs). We argue that at the boundary of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos

We describe a prescription for constructing conformal blocks in conformal field theories in any space-time dimension with arbitrary quantum numbers. Our procedure reduces the calculation of conformal blocks to constructing certain group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Jean-François Fortin , Witold Skiba

In this work we apply the lightcone bootstrap to a four-point function of scalars in two-dimensional conformal field theory. We include the entire Virasoro symmetry and consider non-rational theories with a gap in the spectrum from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 Carlos Cardona , Cynthia Keeler , William Munizzi

We initiate a study of the bootstrap programme for field theories with BMS symmetry. Specifically, we look at two-dimensional field theories with BMS3 symmetry and, using highest weight representations, we construct the BMS bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Arjun Bagchi , Mirah Gary , Zodinmawia

We use the conformal bootstrap program to derive necessary conditions for emergent symmetry enhancement from discrete symmetry (e.g. $\mathbb{Z}_n$) to continuous symmetry (e.g. $U(1)$) under the renormalization group flow. In three…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 Yu Nakayama , Tomoki Ohtsuki

The Brownian loop soup is a conformally invariant statistical ensemble of random loops in two dimensions characterized by an intensity $\lambda>0$, with central charge $c=2 \lambda$. Recent progress resulted in an analytic form for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Federico Camia , Valentino F. Foit , Alberto Gandolfi , Matthew Kleban

Motivated by applications to the study of ultracold atomic gases near the unitarity limit, we investigate the structure of the operator product expansion (OPE) in non-relativistic conformal field theories (NRCFTs). The main tool used in our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Walter D. Goldberger , Zuhair U. Khandker , Siddharth Prabhu

It has long been clear that the conformal bootstrap is associated with a rich geometry. In this paper we undertake a systematic exploration of this geometric structure as an object of study in its own right. We study conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Shu-Heng Shao

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

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

Higher-point correlation functions encode the data of infinitely many 4-point correlators in conformal field theory (CFT). In this paper, we develop new tools to efficiently extract this data from multi-point crossing equations. Concretely,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj

We develop a framework for constructing superconformal blocks for correlators of general supermultiplets in theories with $\mathrm{SU}(m,m|2n)$ symmetry, such as four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ and $\mathcal{N} = 4$ conformal theories. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Tobias Hansen , Paul Heslop , Hector Puerta-Ramisa

We numerically study the crossing symmetry constraints in 4D CFTs, using previously introduced algorithms based on semidefinite programming. We study bounds on OPE coefficients of tensor operators as a function of their scaling dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Caracciolo , Alejandro Castedo Echeverri , Benedict von Harling , Marco Serone

We introduce a full set of rules to directly express all $M$-point conformal blocks in one- and two-dimensional conformal field theories, irrespective of the topology. The $M$-point conformal blocks are power series expansion in some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-17 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Witold Skiba