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We study a statistical model defined by a conformally invariant distribution of overlapping spheres in arbitrary dimension d. The model arises as the asymptotic distribution of cosmic bubbles in d+1 dimensional de Sitter space, and also as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Ben Freivogel , Matthew Kleban

Conformal field theory and its axiomatisation in terms of vertex operator algebras or chiral algebras are most commonly considered on the Riemann sphere. However, an important constraint in physics and an interesting source of mathematics…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Matthew Krauel , Jamal Noel Shafiq , Simon Wood

We develop the embedding formalism for conformal field theories, aimed at doing computations with symmetric traceless operators of arbitrary spin. We use an index-free notation where tensors are encoded by polynomials in auxiliary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones , David Poland , Slava Rychkov

In this paper, we demonstrate the emergence of nonlinear gravitational equations directly from the physics of a broad class of conformal field theories. We consider CFT excited states defined by adding sources for scalar primary or stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Thomas Faulkner , Felix M. Haehl , Eliot Hijano , Onkar Parrikar , Charles Rabideau , Mark Van Raamsdonk

In this thesis we study the momentum space approach to the solution of the CWI's of CFT's in higher dimensions. Our work's goal is to illustrate the essential steps needed to build tensor correlators starting from the scalar solutions, for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-02 Matteo Maria Maglio

We study the non-perturbative properties of N=2 super conformal field theories in four dimensions using localization techniques. In particular we consider SU(2) gauge theories, deformed by a generic epsilon-background, with four fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Marco Billo , Marialuisa Frau , Laurent Gallot , Alberto Lerda , Igor Pesando

We consider $\mathcal{N=1}$ superconformal field theories in three-dimensions possessing a conserved current multiplet $\mathcal{F}_{ (\alpha_{1} \alpha_{2} \alpha_{3} \alpha_{4}) }$ which we refer to as the superspin-2 current multiplet.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-16 Evgeny I. Buchbinder , Benjamin J. Stone

We construct several solutions of effective actions for string theories beyond the supergravity approximation utilizing the framework of the Double Field Theory (DFT). The DFT effective actions, which are well suited for accommodating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 Oleg Lunin , Parita Shah

We consider the Carrollian conformal field theories involving scalar operators in the momentum representation. The momentum space Ward identities are explicitly solved to obtain the different branches of 2 and 3 point Carrollian conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Raffaele Marotta , Arvind Shekar , Mritunjay Verma

We analytically study the lightcone limit of the conformal bootstrap equations for 4-point functions containing global symmetry currents and the stress tensor in 3d CFTs. We show that the contribution of the stress tensor to the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-01 Daliang Li , David Meltzer , David Poland

The Wilsonian renormalization group (WRG) equation is used to derive a new class of scale invariant field theories with nonvanishing anomalous dimensions in 2-dimensional ${\cal N}=2$ supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models. When the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kiyoshi Higashijima , Etsuko Itou

Action principles of the BF type for diffeomorphism invariant topological field theories living in n-dimensional spacetime manifolds are presented. Their construction is inspired by Cuesta and Montesinos' recent paper where Cartan's first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Vladimir Cuesta , Merced Montesinos , Mercedes Velazquez , Jose David Vergara

We study conformal Ward-Takahashi identities for two-point functions in $d(\geq3)$-dimensional finite-temperature conformal field theory. We first show that the conformal Ward-Takahashi identities can be translated into the intertwining…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-29 Satoshi Ohya

Within the theoretical framework of divergence-type theories (DTTs), we set up a consistent nonlinear hydrodynamical description of a conformal fluid in flat space-time. DTTs go beyond second-order (in velocity gradients) theories, and are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 J. Peralta-Ramos , E. Calzetta

We study the geometric action of some modular conjugations in two dimensional (2D) conformal field theories. We investigate the bipartition given by an interval when the system is in the ground state, either on the line or on the circle,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-10 Mihail Mintchev , Erik Tonni

We derive constraints on three-point functions involving the stress tensor, $T$, and a conserved $U(1)$ current, $j$, in 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories that violate parity, using conformal collider bounds introduced by Hofman and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Subham Dutta Chowdhury , Justin R. David , Shiroman Prakash

We study the second-order perturbations in the Einstein-de Sitter Universe in synchronous coordinate. We solve the second-order perturbed Einstein equation with scalar-tensor, and tensor-tensor couplings between 1st order perturbations, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-06 Yang Zhang , Fei Qin , Bo Wang

The goal of these notes is to give a brief explanation of how electric-magnetic duality in four dimensions is related to the existence of an unusual conformal field theory in six dimensions.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-07 Edward Witten

This article presents the description of the internal spaces of fermion and boson fields in $d$-dimensional spaces, with the odd and even "basis vectors" which are the superposition of odd and even products of operators $\gamma^a$. While…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-14 Norma Susana Mankoc Borstnik

The implications of N=1 superconformal symmetry for four dimensional quantum field theories are studied. Superconformal covariant expressions for two and three point functions of quasi-primary superfields of arbitrary spin are found and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-23 Hugh Osborn