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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 study local operator insertions on 1/2-BPS line defects in ABJM theory. Specifically, we consider a class of four-point correlators in the CFT$_1$ with SU$(1, 1|3)$ superconformal symmetry defined on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 Lorenzo Bianchi , Gabriel Bliard , Valentina Forini , Luca Griguolo , Domenico Seminara

We introduce SDPB: an open-source, parallelized, arbitrary-precision semidefinite program solver, designed for the conformal bootstrap. SDPB significantly outperforms less specialized solvers and should enable many new computations. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-10 David Simmons-Duffin

We introduce a new domain for finding precise numerical invariants of programs by abstract interpretation. This domain, which consists of level sets of non-linear functions, generalizes the domain of linear "templates" introduced by Manna,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Assalé Adjé , Stéphane Gaubert , Eric Goubault

We propose an algorithm for solving bound-constrained mathematical programs with complementarity constraints on the variables. Each iteration of the algorithm involves solving a linear program with complementarity constraints in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Christian Kirches , Jeffrey Larson , Sven Leyffer , Paul Manns

Seeking tighter relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems, semidefinite programming is a generalization of linear programming that offers better bounds and is still polynomially solvable. Yet, in practice, a semidefinite program is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Daniel Porumbel

We evaluated all two-loop conformal integrals of scalar half-BPS six-point functions in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM restricted to a configuration where all points lie on a line. Moreover, we also computed some of these integrals in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-14 Ricardo Rodrigues

The N = 2, 4 superconformal symmetry constraints in d = 4 for four point functions of chiral primary 1/2-BPS operators are derived. The operators are described by symmetric traceless tensors of the internal R-symmetry group. A substantial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 Michael Nirschl

We introduce PyCFTBoot, a wrapper designed to reduce the barrier to entry in conformal bootstrap calculations that require semidefinite programming. Symengine and SDPB are used for the most intensive symbolic and numerical steps…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Connor Behan

Three-dimensional theories with cubic symmetry are studied using the machinery of the numerical conformal bootstrap. Crossing symmetry and unitarity are imposed on a set of mixed correlators, and various aspects of the parameter space are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We initiate the S-matrix bootstrap analysis of theories with non-invertible symmetries in (1+1) dimensions. Our previous work showed that crossing symmetry of S-matrices in such theories is modified, with modification characterized by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-04 Christian Copetti , Lucia Cordova , Shota Komatsu

We study the two-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM in the presence of a line defect. To be more precise, we focus on the single-trace operator of conformal dimension two that sits in the $20'$ irrep of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Jan Plefka

We develop an algebraic approach to the analytic bootstrap in CFTs. By acting with the Casimir operator on the crossing equation we map the problem of doing large spin sums to any desired order to the problem of solving a set of recursion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 Luis F. Alday , Alexander Zhiboedov

Understanding the link between correlation functions (CFs) of local operators and measurable collider correlators has emerged as a new opportunity in the study of gauge theory dynamics at colliders. While in Conformal Field Theories (CFTs)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 Hao Chen , Pier Francesco Monni , Zhaoyan Pang , Gherardo Vita , Hua Xing Zhu

We propose an algorithm for computing the projection of a symmetric second-order tensor onto the cone of negative semidefinite symmetric tensors with respect to the inner product defined by an assigned positive definite symmetric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Cristina Padovani , Margherita Porcelli

We present a semidefinite programming approach to bound the measures of cross-independent pairs in a bipartite graph. This can be viewed as a far-reaching extension of Hoffman's ratio bound on the independence number of a graph. As an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Sho Suda , Hajime Tanaka , Norihide Tokushige

We study the fixed point problem for a system of multivariate operators that are coordinate-wise monotone (i.e., nondecreasing or nonincreasing in each of the variables, independently), in the setting of quasi-ordered sets. We show that…

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Mircea-Dan Rus

We present a dispersion relation for defect CFT that reconstructs two-point functions in the presence of a defect as an integral of a single discontinuity. The main virtue of this formula is that it streamlines explicit bootstrap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Julien Barrat , Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

The four point function of Conformal Field Theories (CFT's) with global symmetry gives rise to multiple crossing symmetry constraints. We explicitly study the correlator of four scalar operators transforming in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Vichi

We study the ternary quadratic problem (TQP), a quadratic optimization problem with linear constraints where the variables take values in $\{0, \pm 1\}$. While semidefinite programming (SDP) techniques are well established for $\{0,1\}$-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Frank de Meijer , Veronica Piccialli , Renata Sotirov , Antonio M. Sudoso