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We discuss the problem to develop a mathematical theory of a certain class of nonrational conformal field theories (CFT) which contain the unitary CFT. A variant of the concept of a modular functor is proposed that appears to be suitable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-03-07 J. Teschner

We build a four-dimensional quaternion-parametrized conformal field theory (QCFT) using quaternion holomorphic functions as the generators of quaternionic conformal transformations. Taking the two-dimensional complex-parametrized conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-03 Sergio Giardino

Over the past twenty years, the probabilistic approach to Liouville Conformal Field Theory (LCFT) has undergone remarkable developments, transforming a collection of ideas at the interface of probability, geometry, complex analysis and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Rémi Rhodes , Vincent Vargas

Boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is the study of conformal field theory (CFT) on manifolds with a boundary. We can use conformal symmetry to constrain correlation functions of conformal invariant fields. We compute two-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

A concise review of the notions of elliptic functions, modular forms, and theta-functions is provided, devoting most of the paper to applications to Conformal Field Theory (CFT), introduced within the axiomatic framework of quantum field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolay M. Nikolov , Ivan T. Todorov

We describe an approach to logarithmic conformal field theories as limits of sequences of ordinary conformal field theories with varying central charge c. Logarithmic behaviour arises from degeneracies in the spectrum of scaling dimensions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-25 John Cardy

We argue that the celestial conformal field theory exhibits patterns of a logarithmic conformal field theory. We uncover a Jordan block structure involving the celestial stress tensor and its logarithmic partner, a composite operator built…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-26 Adrien Fiorucci , Daniel Grumiller , Romain Ruzziconi

It is discussed how stochastic evolutions may be linked to logarithmic conformal field theory. This introduces an extension of the stochastic Loewner evolutions. Based on the existence of a logarithmic null vector in an indecomposable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-16 Jorgen Rasmussen

We study correlation functions in two-dimensional conformal field theory coupled to induced gravity in the light-cone gauge. Focussing on the fermion four-point function, we display an unexpected non-perturbative singularity structure:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Adel Bilal , Ian I. Kogan

We construct logarithmic conformal field theories starting from an ordinary conformal field theory -- with a chiral algebra C and the corresponding space of states V -- via a two-step construction: i) deforming the chiral algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Fjelstad , J. Fuchs , S. Hwang , A. M. Semikhatov , I. Yu. Tipunin

We study logarithmic conformal field theory (LogCFT) in four dimensions using conformal bootstrap techniques in the large spin limit. We focus on the constraints imposed by conformal symmetry on the four point function of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey

When Alf`ven effect is peresent in magnetohydrodynamics one is naturally lead to consider conformal field theories, which have logarithmic terms in their correlation functions. We discuss the implications of such logarithmic terms and find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 M. R. Rahimi Tabar , S. Rouhani

It is shown explicitly that the correlation functions of Conformal Field Theories (CFT) with the logarithmic operators are invariant under the differential realization of Borel subalgebra of $\W_\infty$-algebra. This algebra is constructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Shafiekhani , M. R. Rahimi Tabar

Formal Loewner evolution is connected to conformal field theory. In this letter we introduce an extension of Loewner evolution, which consists of two coupled equations and connect the martingales of these equations to the null vectors of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Moghimi-Araghi , M. A. Rajabpour , S. Rouhani

Conformal field theories (CFTs) are associated with critical phenomena and phase transitions and also play an essential role in string theory. Solving a CFT is an extremely constrained problem due to conformal invariance -- the task…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-07 Vito Pellizzani

There are important conjectures about logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFT), which are constructed as kernel of screening operators acting on the vertex algebra of the rescaled root lattice of a finite-dimensional semisimple complex…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-01 I. Flandoli , S. Lentner

We present a new framework for a Lagrangian description of conformal field theories in various dimensions based on a local version of d+2-dimensional conformal space. The results include a true gauge theory of conformal gravity in d=(1,3)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. R. Preitschopf , M. A. Vasiliev

We study Schr\"odinger invariant field theories (nonrelativistic conformal field theories) in the large charge (particle number) sector. We do so by constructing the effective field theory (EFT) for a Goldstone boson of the associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-12 S. M. Kravec , Sridip Pal

We study the possibility of extending ghost systems with higher spin to a logarithmic conformal field theory. In particular we are interested in c=-26 which turns out to behave very differently to the already known c=-2 case. The energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Marco Krohn , Michael Flohr

Null vectors are generalized to the case of indecomposable representations which are one of the main features of logarithmic conformal field theories. This is done by developing a compact formalism with the particular advantage that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Michael Flohr