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We study the contact terms that appear in the correlation functions of exactly marginal operators using the AdS/CFT correspondence. It is known that CFT with an exactly marginal deformation requires the existence of the contact terms with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Tadakatsu Sakai , Masashi Zenkai

Various observables in compact CFTs are required to obey positivity, discreteness, and integrality. Positivity forms the crux of the conformal bootstrap, but understanding of the abstract implications of discreteness and integrality for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Justin Kaidi , Eric Perlmutter

We use the variational principle approach to derive the large $N$ holographic dictionary for two-dimensional $T\bar T$-deformed CFTs, for both signs of the deformation parameter. The resulting dual gravitational theory has mixed boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Monica Guica , Ruben Monten

We investigate the presence of logarithmic CFT doublets in the soft sector of celestial CFT related with supertranslations. We show that the quantum operator associated with a $\log u$ late-time behavior for the asymptotic gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Agnese Bissi , Laura Donnay , Beniamino Valsesia

For a local quantum field theory in anti-de Sitter space with conformal boundary conditions but without dynamical gravity, the boundary theory is generically a non-local conformal field theory. Such theories can support conformal defects,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Jiaxin Qiao

Loop corrections in QED and gravity have recently been conjectured to give rise to an infinite tower of logarithmic soft theorems governing the universal low-energy behavior of photons and gravitons. We explore the implications of this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 Sangmin Choi , Ameya Kadhe , Andrea Puhm

Scattering amplitudes in $d+2$ dimensions can be recast as correlators of conformal primary operators in a putative holographic CFT$_d$ by working in a basis of boost eigenstates instead of momentum eigenstates. It has been shown previously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Prahar Mitra

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is simply the study of conformal field theory (CFT) in domains with a boundary. It gains its significance because, in some ways, it is mathematically simpler: the algebraic and geometric structures of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-20 John Cardy

We generalize the $T\overline{T}$ deformation of CFT$_2$ to higher-dimensional large-$N$ CFTs, and show that in holographic theories, the resulting effective field theory matches semiclassical gravity in AdS with a finite radial cutoff. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Thomas Hartman , Jorrit Kruthoff , Edgar Shaghoulian , Amirhossein Tajdini

The Lorentzian AdS/CFT correspondence implies a map between local operators in supergravity and non-local operators in the CFT. By explicit computation we construct CFT operators which are dual to local bulk fields in the semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alex Hamilton , Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz , David A. Lowe

We consider supersymmetric conformal quantum field theories (SCFTs) with degrees of freedom labeled by lattice data. We will assume that in terms of the corresponding lattice the interactions are nearest neighbor and exactly marginal. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Shlomo S. Razamat , Michal Shemesh , Aelly Zeltzer

Both celestial and momentum space amplitudes in four dimensions are beset by divergences resulting from spacetime translation and sometimes scale invariance. In this paper we consider a (linearized) marginal deformation of the celestial CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Eduardo Casali , Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger

A holographic conformal field theory is dual to semi-classical general relativity in Anti-de Sitter space coupled to matter fields. If the CFT factorizes in the large-$N$ limit, then all couplings in its dual are suppressed by the Planck…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-11 Luis Apolo , Alexandre Belin , Suzanne Bintanja , Alejandra Castro , Christoph A. Keller

As in two and four dimensions, supersymmetric conformal field theories in three dimensions can have exactly marginal operators. These are illustrated in a number of examples with N=4 and N=2 supersymmetry. The N=2 theory of three chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew J. Strassler

We present the foundation for a holographic dictionary with depth perception. The dictionary consists of natural CFT operators whose duals are simple, diffeomorphism-invariant bulk operators. The CFT operators of interest are the "OPE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-29 Bartlomiej Czech , Lampros Lamprou , Samuel McCandlish , Benjamin Mosk , James Sully

We discuss the constraints that a conformal field theory should enjoy to admit exactly marginal deformations, i.e. to be part of a conformal manifold. In particular, using tools from conformal perturbation theory, we derive a sum rule from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Vladimir Bashmakov , Matteo Bertolini , Himanshu Raj

Global conformal invariance determines the form of two and three-point functions of quasi-primary operators in a conformal field theory, and generates nontrivial relations between terms in the operator product expansion. These ideas are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Atreya Chatterjee , David A. Lowe

We study the decoupling of high dimension operators from the the description of the low-energy spectrum in theories where conformal symmetry is broken by a single scale, which we refer to as `broken CFTs'. Holographic duality suggests that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-15 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Emanuel Katz , Lisa Randall

We construct symmetry generators and operators for $J\bar{T}$-deformed conformal field theories by generalizing the framework established for $T\bar{T}$ deformations. Working in the Hamiltonian formalism on the plane, we derive the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Liangyu Chen , Zhengyuan Du , Wei Song

In the framework of bulk reconstruction, we elucidate the relationship between the action of CFT modular Hamiltonians on bulk operators, the possible equation of motion for the bulk operators, and the charge distribution at infinity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Nele Callebaut , Gilad Lifschytz