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We explore the space of extremal functionals in the conformal bootstrap. By recasting the bootstrap problem as a set of non-linear equations parameterized by the CFT data, we find an efficient algorithm for converging to the extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Current numerical conformal bootstrap techniques carve out islands in theory space by repeatedly checking whether points are allowed or excluded. We propose a new method for searching theory space that replaces the binary information…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-29 Marten Reehorst , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Benoit Sirois , Ning Su , Balt van Rees

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

Conformal field theory (CFT) is an extremely powerful tool for explicitly computing critical exponents and correlation functions of statistical mechanics systems at a second order phase transition, or of condensed matter systems at a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 Alessandro Giuliani

We study the conformal bootstrap in fractional space-time dimensions, obtaining rigorous bounds on operator dimensions. Our results show strong evidence that there is a family of unitary CFTs connecting the 2D Ising model, the 3D Ising…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 S. El-Showk , M. Paulos , D. Poland , S. Rychkov , D. Simmons-Duffin , A. Vichi

Recent programs on conformal bootstrap suggest an empirical relationship between the existence of non-trivial conformal field theories and non-trivial features such as a kink in the unitarity bound of conformal dimensions in the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Yu Nakayama

Bootstrap equations for conformal correlators that mimic the early theory of conformal bootstrap are written down in frames of the AdS/CFT approach. The simplified version of these equations, that may be justified if Schwinger-Keldysh…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-28 Boris L. Altshuler

Modular invariance imposes rigid constrains on the partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories. Many fundamental results follow strictly from modular invariance, giving rise to the numerical modular bootstrap program.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-06 Anatoly Dymarsky , Alfred Shapere

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

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

Logarithmic conformal field theories have a vast range of applications, from critical percolation to systems with quenched disorder. In this paper we thoroughly examine the structure of these theories based on their symmetry properties. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Matthijs Hogervorst , Miguel Paulos , Alessandro Vichi

The primary aim of these lecture notes is to introduce the modern approach to two-dimensional conformal field theory (2D CFT). The study of analytical methods in two-dimensional conformal field theory has developed over several decades,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-20 Yuya Kusuki

This research addresses the numerical simulation of the Boltzmann transport equation for semiconductor devices by proposing a multidimensional self-adaptive numerical simulation framework. This framework is applied to two important…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Zeyu Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Zhigang Song , Qing Fang

The modern conformal bootstrap program often employs the method of linear functionals to derive the numerical or analytical bounds on the CFT data. These functionals must have a crucial "swapping" property, allowing to swap infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-11 Jiaxin Qiao , Slava Rychkov

We show that conformal blocks simplify greatly when there is a large difference between two of the scaling dimensions for external operators. In particular the spacetime dimension only appears in an overall constant which we determine via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-09 Connor Behan

This review aims to offer a pedagogical introduction to the analytic conformal bootstrap program via a journey through selected topics. We review analytic methods which include the large spin perturbation theory, Mellin space methods and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Agnese Bissi , Aninda Sinha , Xinan Zhou

We investigate the non-BPS realm of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theory by uniting the non-perturbative methods of the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization, and utilizing special features of 3d ${\cal N} = 4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Chi-Ming Chang , Martin Fluder , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Shu-Heng Shao , Yifan Wang

We propose a bootstrap program for CFTs near intersecting boundaries which form a co-dimension 2 edge. We describe the kinematical setup and show that bulk 1-pt functions and bulk-edge 2-pt functions depend on a non-trivial cross-ratio and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-27 António Antunes

Conformal blocks for correlation functions of tensor operators play an increasingly important role for the conformal bootstrap programme. We develop a universal approach to such spinning blocks through the harmonic analysis of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-07 Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko , Mikhail Isachenkov

We provide a framework for generic 4D conformal bootstrap computations. It is based on the unification of two independent approaches, the covariant (embedding) formalism and the non-covariant (conformal frame) formalism. We construct their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-17 Gabriel Francisco Cuomo , Denis Karateev , Petr Kravchuk