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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-10 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Andreas Stergiou

Non-relativistic conformal field theory describes many-body physics at unitarity. The correlation functions of the system are fixed by the requirement of conformal invariance. In this article, we discuss the correlation functions of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-02 Rajesh Kumar Gupta , Meenu

Unitary conformal field theories (CFTs) are believed to have positive (non-negative) energy correlators. Energy correlators are universal observables in higher-dimensional CFTs built out of integrated Wightman functions of the stress-energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alexander Zhiboedov

This paper studies the critical behavior of the 3d classical $\mathrm{O}(N)$ model with a boundary. Recently, one of us established that upon treating $N$ as a continuous variable, there exists a critical value $N_c > 2$ such that for $2…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-15 Jaychandran Padayasi , Abijith Krishnan , Max A. Metlitski , Ilya A. Gruzberg , Marco Meineri

We study behaviour of the critical $O(N)$ vector model with quartic interaction in $2 \leq d \leq 6$ dimensions to the next-to-leading order in the large-$N$ expansion. We derive and perform consistency checks that provide an evidence for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Mikhail Goykhman , Michael Smolkin

We analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on the four-point function of the stress-tensor multiplet of ${\cal N}=8$ superconformal field theories in three dimensions. We first derive the superconformal blocks by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Shai M. Chester , Jaehoon Lee , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

For general N=5 and N=6 superconformal field theories in three dimensions, we compute the three-point correlation functions of the supercurrent multiplets. In each case, N=5 and N=6, the functional form of this correlator is uniquely fixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Sergei M. Kuzenko , Igor B. Samsonov

We introduce the analytic superspace formalism for six-dimensional $(N,0)$ superconformal field theories. Concentrating on the $(2,0)$ theory we write down the Ward identities for correlation functions in the theory and show how to solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 P. J. Heslop

O(N) symmetric $\lambda \phi^4$ field theories describe many critical phenomena in the laboratory and in the early Universe. Given N and $D\leq 3$, the dimension of space, these models exhibit topological defect classical solutions that in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nuno D. Antunes , Luis M. A. Bettencourt , Andrew Yates

We study the limit of D-series minimal models when the central charge tends to a generic irrational value $c\in (-\infty, 1)$. We find that the limit theory's diagonal three-point structure constant differs from that of Liouville theory by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-08 Sylvain Ribault

By leveraging the physics of the Higgs branch, we argue that the conformal central charges $a$ and $c$ of an arbitrary 4d $N=2$ superconformal field theory (SCFT) are rational numbers. Our proof of the rationality of $c$ is conditioned on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Leonardo Rastelli , Brandon C. Rayhaun

An exact time-dependent solution of a black hole is found in conformally invariant gravity on a warped Randall-Sundrum spacetime, by writing the metric $g_{\mu\nu}=\omega^{\frac{4}{n-2}}\tilde g_{\mu\nu}$. Here $\tilde g_{\mu\nu}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-19 Reinoud J. Slagter

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

We study the tricritical Ising universality class using conformal bootstrap techniques. By studying bootstrap constraints originating from multiple correlators on the CFT data of multiple OPEs, we are able to determine the scaling dimension…

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We outline a general strategy developed for the analysis of critical models, which we apply to obtain a heuristic classification of all universality classes with up to three field-theoretical scalar order parameters in $d=6-\epsilon$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Alessandro Codello , Mahmoud Safari , Gian Paolo Vacca , Omar Zanusso

Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids, magnets, and numerous other materials, while at the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 David Poland , Slava Rychkov , Alessandro Vichi

In this paper, we analyze the constraints imposed by unitarity and crossing symmetry on conformal theories in large dimensions. In particular, we show that in a unitary conformal theory in large dimension $D$, the four-point function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Abhijit Gadde , Trakshu Sharma

Conformal symmetry is expected to be realized in many equilibrium statistical mechanical systems at criticality. Although this is certainly true in two-dimensional systems, the three-dimensional case is subtler, and only a few proofs exist,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-28 Santiago Cabrera , Gonzalo De Polsi , Adam Rançon , Nicolás Wschebor

We study four-point correlators in superconformal theories in various dimensions. We develop an efficient method to solve the superconformal Ward identities in Mellin space. For 4d $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM and the 6d $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Clément Virally

We study a homogeneous system of $d+8$ linear partial differential equations (PDEs) in $d$ variables arising from two-dimensional Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) with a $W_3$-symmetry algebra. In the CFT context, $d$ PDEs are third-order…

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