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Logarithmic Conformal Field Theories (LCFT) play a key role, for instance, in the description of critical geometrical problems (percolation, self avoiding walks, etc.), or of critical points in several classes of disordered systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-22 A. M. Gainutdinov , J. L. Jacobsen , N. Read , H. Saleur , R. Vasseur

The growing need for intelligent, adaptive, and energy-efficient autonomous systems across fields such as robotics, mobile agents (e.g., UAVs), and self-driving vehicles is driving interest in neuromorphic computing. By drawing inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

We work out all of the details required for implementation of the conformal bootstrap program applied to the four-point function of two scalars and two vectors in an abstract conformal field theory in arbitrary dimension. This includes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Fernando Rejon-Barrera , Daniel Robbins

We review a framework for the conformal bootstrap that does not rely on positivity and treats the infinite tower of high-dimension OPE contributions to conformal correlators through dispersion relations and neural networks. We apply it to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis

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

The Celestial Holography program encompasses recent efforts to understand the flat space hologram in terms of a CFT living on the celestial sphere. A key development instigating these efforts came from understanding how soft limits of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Sabrina Pasterski

Conformal field theories that exhibit spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry (a moduli space of vacua) must satisfy a set of bootstrap constraints, involving the usual data (scaling dimensions and OPE coefficients) as well as new data…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-13 Gabriel Cuomo , Leonardo Rastelli , Adar Sharon

We introduce the software blocks_3d for computing four-point conformal blocks of operators with arbitrary Lorentz representations in 3d CFTs. It uses Zamolodchikov-like recursion relations to numerically compute derivatives of blocks around…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Luca V. Iliesiu , Petr Kravchuk , Walter Landry , David Poland , David Simmons-Duffin

In the paper, we review the recent construction of the Liouville conformal field theory (CFT) from probabilistic methods, and the formalization of the conformal bootstrap. This model has offered a fruitful playground to unify the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Colin Guillarmou , Antti Kupiainen , Rémi Rhodes

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

Forecasting surgical instrument trajectories and predicting the next surgical action recently started to attract attention from the research community. Both these tasks are crucial for automation and assistance in endoscopy surgery. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Sara Sangalli , Gary Sarwin , Ertunc Erdil , Alessandro Carretta , Victor Staartjes , Carlo Serra , Ender Konukoglu

This is the third paper in a series describing a numerical implementation of the conformal Einstein equation. This paper describes a scheme to calculate (three) dimensional data for the conformal field equations from a set of free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Huebner

We use the conformal bootstrap approach to explore $5D$ CFTs with $O(N)$ global symmetry, which contain $N$ scalars $\phi_i$ transforming as $O(N)$ vector. Specifically, we study multiple four-point correlators of the leading $O(N)$ vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Zhijin Li , Ning Su

We present a new algorithm for the numerical evaluation of five-point conformal blocks in $d$-dimensions, greatly improving the efficiency of their computation. To do this we use an appropriate ansatz for the blocks as a series expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-03 David Poland , Valentina Prilepina , Petar Tadić

Using numerical conformal bootstrap technology we perform a non-perturbative study of the Ising CFT and its spectrum from infinitesimal to finite values of $\varepsilon=4-d$. Exploiting the recent navigator bootstrap method in conjunction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Marten Reehorst

We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,0)$ superconformal field theories with flavor symmetry $\mathfrak{so}_{4k}$. We present evidence that minimal $(D_k, D_k)$ conformal matter saturates the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Florent Baume , Craig Lawrie

We study the conformal bootstrap for a 4-point function of fermions $\langle\psi\psi\psi\psi\rangle$ in 3D. We first introduce an embedding formalism for 3D spinors and compute the conformal blocks appearing in fermion 4-point functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-08 Luca Iliesiu , Filip Kos , David Poland , Silviu S. Pufu , David Simmons-Duffin , Ran Yacoby

Density functional theory (DFT) became a universal approach to compute ground-state and excited configurations of many-electron systems held together by an external one-body potential in condensed-matter, atomic, and molecular physics. At…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-30 J. Dobaczewski

Conformal symmetry provides a systematic approximation to QCD in both its perturbative and nonperturbative domains. One can use the AdS/CFT correspondence between Anti-de Sitter space and conformal gauge theories to obtain an analytically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Stanley J. Brodsky

Conformal blocks in odd spacetime dimensions are not known in closed analytic form. To facilitate efficient computations in the conformal bootstrap, we introduce $\texttt{GoBlocks}$: a novel conformal-block generator implemented in the Go…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 James Chryssanthacopoulos , Vasilis Niarchos , Constantinos Papageorgakis , Alexander G. Stapleton
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