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We introduce a novel method to bootstrap crossing equations in Conformal Field Theory and apply it to finite temperature theories on $S^1\times \mathbb{R}^{d-1}$. The proposed approach does not rely on positivity constraints and does not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 V. Niarchos , C. Papageorgakis , A. Stratoudakis , M. Woolley

The exact analytic solution is introduced for the rotational motion of a rigid body having three equal principal moments of inertia and subjected to an external torque vector which is constant for an observer fixed with the body, and to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Marcello Romano

Effective field theories provide a suitable framework for both particle physics and statistical physics. We delve deeper into the study of the effective three-dimensional scalar field theory for its application to statistical physics,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jose Gaite

We describe examples of drastic truncations of conformal bootstrap equations encoding much more information than that obtained by a direct numerical approach. A three-term truncation of the four point function of a free scalar in any space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Ferdinando Gliozzi

In $\mathcal{N}=1$ superconformal theories in four dimensions the two-point function of superconformal multiplets is known up to an overall constant. A superconformal multiplet contains several conformal primary operators, whose two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-08 Daliang Li , Andreas Stergiou

In the first part, we concentrate on CFTs in coordinate space. We lay the foundations of Conformal Field Theory and we also demonstrate a method where by using the embedding formalism we can derive up to n-point scalar conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-26 Dimosthenis Theofilopoulos

Finding the precise correspondence between lattice operators and the continuum fields that describe their long-distance properties is a largely open problem for strongly interacting critical points. Here we solve this problem essentially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-29 Roger S. K. Mong , David J. Clarke , Jason Alicea , Netanel H. Lindner , Paul Fendley

The single-correlator conformal bootstrap is solved numerically for several values of dimension 4>d>2 using the available SDPB and Extremal Functional methods. Critical exponents and other conformal data of low-lying states are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Andrea Cappelli , Lorenzo Maffi , Satoshi Okuda

We present a model for strongly interacting fermions with internal O(3) symmetry on the fuzzy-sphere that (i) preserves the rotational symmetry of the fuzzy sphere and (ii) undergoes a quantum phase transition in the (2+1)-dimensional O(3)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-26 Arjun Dey , Loic Herviou , Christopher Mudry , Andreas Martin Läuchli

Liouville field theory is considered on domains with conformally invariant boundary conditions. We present an explicit expression for the three point function of boundary fields in terms of the fusion coefficients which determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 B. Ponsot , J. Teschner

We present analytical results for all master integrals for massless three-point functions, with one off-shell leg, at four loops. Our solutions were obtained using differential equations and direct integration techniques. We review the…

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity in general 3D Conformal Field Theories. In doing so we derive new results for conformal blocks appearing in four-point functions of scalars and present an efficient method for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-05 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos , David Poland , Slava Rychkov , David Simmons-Duffin , Alessandro Vichi

The permutation model is a classical spin system where elements of the symmetric group interact with one another. The partition function of this model is directly related to the entanglement structure of random quantum circuits and random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ryuki Ito , Taisei Matsuo , Masayuki Ohzeki

We calculated the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar two-point functions up to two-loop level in the low-energy effective field theory for three different QCD-like theories. In addition we also calculated the pseudo-scalar decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Johan Bijnens , Jie Lu

The analytic structure of elementary correlation functions of a quantum field is relevant for the calculation of masses of bound states and their time-like properties in general. In quantum chromodynamics, the calculation of correlation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-06 Markus Q. Huber , Wolfgang J. Kern , Reinhard Alkofer

We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to constrain the spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular bootstrap bound for chiral algebra $U(1)^c$ maps exactly to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli

We study 3-point functions at finite temperature in the closed time path formalism. We give a general decomposition of the eight component tensor in terms of seven vertex functions. We derive a spectral representation for these seven…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-09 M. E. Carrington , U. Heinz

We use the correspondence between scalar field theory on $AdS_{d+1}$ and a conformal field theory on $R^d$ to calculate the 3- and 4-point functions of the latter. The classical scalar field theory action is evaluated at tree level.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Wolfgang Mueck , K. S. Viswanathan

General principles of quantum field theory imply that there exists an operator product expansion (OPE) for Wightman functions in Minkowski momentum space that converges for arbitrary kinematics. This convergence is guaranteed to hold in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-01 Marc Gillioz , Xiaochuan Lu , Markus A. Luty , Guram Mikaberidze

The aim of the paper is to present numerical results supporting the presence of conformal invariance in three dimensional statistical mechanics models at criticality and to elucidate the geometric aspects of universality. As a case study we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-05 G. Gori , A. Trombettoni