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We present new numerical results on the space of local, unitary, parity-preserving conformal field theories (CFTs) in three dimensions from the stress tensor bootstrap. In bounds maximizing certain OPE coefficients, we find a plethora of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-17 Rajeev S. Erramilli , Matthew S. Mitchell

Causality places nontrivial constraints on QFT in Lorentzian signature, for example fixing the signs of certain terms in the low energy Lagrangian. In d-dimensional conformal field theory, we show how such constraints are encoded in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-05 Thomas Hartman , Sachin Jain , Sandipan Kundu

Conformal field theories (CFTs) with cubic global symmetry in 3D are relevant in a variety of condensed matter systems and have been studied extensively with the use of perturbative methods like the $\varepsilon$ expansion. In an earlier…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-10 Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

We introduce an approach to find approximate numerical solutions of truncated bootstrap equations for Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in arbitrary dimensions. The method is based on a stochastic search via a Metropolis algorithm guided by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-17 Alessandro Laio , Uriel Luviano Valenzuela , Marco Serone

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

We provide evidence for the existence of non-trivial unitary conformal boundary conditions for a three-dimensional free scalar field, which can be obtained via a coupling to the m'th unitary diagonal minimal model. For large m we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-24 Connor Behan , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Edoardo Lauria , Balt C. van Rees

Periodic structures are ubiquitous in quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories, ranging from lattice models, compact spaces, to topological phenomena. However, previous bootstrap studies encountered technical challenges even for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Zhijian Huang , Wenliang Li

Symmetries play a central role in quantum many-body physics, yet uncovering them systematically remains challenging. We introduce a bootstrap framework designed to reconstruct the representation theory of hidden finite group symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Chen Bai , Zihan Zhou , Bastien Lapierre , Shinsei Ryu

We propose a new approach towards analytically solving for the dynamical content of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) using the bootstrap philosophy. This combines the original bootstrap idea of Polyakov with the modern technology of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Rajesh Gopakumar , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

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

We consider a generalized method of moments framework in which a part of the data vector is missing for some units in a completely unrestricted, potentially endogenous way. In this setup, the parameters of interest are usually only…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-07 Grigory Franguridi , Hyungsik Roger Moon

We use the conformal bootstrap to study conformal field theories with $O(N)$ global symmetry in $d=5$ and $d=5.95$ spacetime dimensions that have a scalar operator $\phi_i$ transforming as an $O(N)$ vector. The crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-06 Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

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 propose a strategy to study massive Quantum Field Theory (QFT) using conformal bootstrap methods. The idea is to consider QFT in hyperbolic space and study correlation functions of its boundary operators. We show that these are solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Miguel F. Paulos , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

The crossing equations of a conformal field theory can be systematically truncated to a finite, closed system of polynomial equations. In certain cases, solutions of the truncated equations place strict bounds on the space of all unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Thomas Hartman , Amirhossein Tajdini

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

This paper develops valid bootstrap inference methods for the dynamic short panel threshold regression. We show that the standard nonparametric bootstrap is inconsistent for the first-differenced generalized method of moments (GMM)…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-11-18 Woosik Gong , Myung Hwan Seo

We constrain the spectrum of two-dimensional unitary, compact conformal field theories with central charge c > 1 using modular bootstrap. Upper bounds on the gap in the dimension of primary operators of any spin, as well as in the dimension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-23 Scott Collier , Ying-Hsuan Lin , Xi Yin

We incorporate the microscopic assumptions that lead to a certain generalization of the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem for one-dimensional spin chains into the conformal bootstrap. Our approach accounts for the "LSM anomaly" possessed by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-31 Ryan A. Lanzetta , Lukasz Fidkowski

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