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Higher dimensional Euclidean Liouville conformal field theories (LCFTs) consist of a log-correlated real scalar field with a background charge and an exponential potential. We analyse the LCFT on a four-dimensional manifold with a boundary.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-26 Adwait Gaikwad , Amitay C. Kislev , Tom Levy , Yaron Oz

We use the embedding formalism to construct conformal fields in $D$ dimensions, by restricting Lorentz-invariant ensembles of homogeneous neural networks in $(D+2)$ dimensions to the projective null cone. Conformal correlators may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 James Halverson , Joydeep Naskar , Jiahua Tian

Four-dimensional N-extended superconformal symmetry and correlation functions of quasi-primary superfields are studied within the superspace formalism. A superconformal Killing equation is derived and its solutions are classified in terms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Jeong-Hyuck Park

We study quantum field theories with boundary by utilizing non-invertible symmetries. We consider three kinds of boundary conditions of the four dimensional $\mathbb{Z}_2$ lattice gauge theory at the critical point as examples. The weights…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-26 Masataka Koide , Yuta Nagoya , Satoshi Yamaguchi

We describe a new correspondence between four-dimensional conformal field theories with extended supersymmetry and two-dimensional chiral algebras. The meromorphic correlators of the chiral algebra compute correlators in a protected sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Christopher Beem , Madalena Lemos , Pedro Liendo , Wolfger Peelaers , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We study 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ gauge theories with a co-dimension two full surface operator, which exhibit a fascinating interplay of supersymmetric gauge theories, equivariant Gromov-Witten theory and geometric representation theory. For pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-25 Satoshi Nawata

We introduce a new class of two dimensional conformal field theories by extending Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) models to chiral algebras with matrix-valued levels. The new CFTs are based on holomorphic currents with an operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-19 Ali Nassar

We review recent developments in the context of two-dimensional conformally invariant sigma-models. These quantum field theories play a prominent role in the covariant superstring quantization in flux backgrounds and in the analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-07 Vladimir Mitev , Thomas Quella , Volker Schomerus

We review the emergence of hypergeometric structures (of $F_4$ Appell functions) from the conformal Ward identities (CWIs) in conformal field theories (CFTs) in dimensions $d > 2$. We illustrate the case of scalar 3- and 4-point functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-30 Claudio Corianò , Matteo Maria Maglio

We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

We show how aspects of the R-charge of N=2 CFTs in four dimensions are encoded in the q-deformed Kontsevich-Soibelman monodromy operator, built from their dyon spectra. In particular, the monodromy operator should have finite order if the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-07-01 Sergio Cecotti , Andrew Neitzke , Cumrun Vafa

We show how to compute conformal blocks of operators in arbitrary Lorentz representations using the formalism described in arXiv:1905.00036 and arXiv:1905.00434, and present several explicit examples of blocks derived via this method. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-25 Jean-François Fortin , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

On the bundles of WZW chiral blocks over the moduli space of a punctured rational curve we construct isomorphisms that implement the action of outer automorphisms of the underlying affine Lie algebra. These bundle-isomorphisms respect the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Fuchs , C. Schweigert

Here we discuss the construction of Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant objects in the twistor space for three dimensional conformal field theories. The Sp$(4;\mathbb{R})$ invariant projective delta function, alongside the Twistor symplectic dot…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Aswini Bala , Dhruva K. S

We present a complete solution of the WZW model on the supergroup GL(1|1). Our analysis begins with a careful study of its minisuperspace limit (``harmonic analysis on the supergroup''). Its spectrum is shown to contain indecomposable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Volker Schomerus , Hubert Saleur

The WZW models describe the dynamics of the edge modes of Chern-Simons theories in three dimensions. We explore the WZW models which can be mapped to supersymmetric theories via the generalized Jordan-Wigner transformation. Some of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-22 Jin-Beom Bae , Sungjay Lee

We make a detailed study of the infinite dimensional Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) in the case of two spacetime dimensions. Classically, this algebra is precisely obtained from a contraction of the generators of the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-08 Arjun Bagchi , Rajesh Gopakumar , Ipsita Mandal , Akitsugu Miwa

We discuss specific hypergeometric solutions of the conformal Ward identities (CWI's) of scalar 4-point functions of primary fields in momentum space, in $d$ spacetime dimensions. We determine such solutions using various dual conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Claudio Corianò , Matteo Maria Maglio

We investigate the mathematical and physical content of the giant graviton expansion of three-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=4$ superconformal field theories in a simplifying limit. We uncover an interesting relation between the coefficients in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Nick Dorey , Paul Luis Roehl

An infinite set of operator-valued relations that hold for reducible representations of the sl(2)_k algebra is derived. These relations are analogous to those recently obtained by Zamolodchikov which involve logarithmic fields associated to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Gaetano Bertoldi , Gaston Giribet