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Bootstrapping Mixed Correlators in the Five Dimensional Critical O(N) Models

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-24 v1

Abstract

We use the conformal bootstrap approach to explore 5D5D CFTs with O(N)O(N) global symmetry, which contain NN scalars ϕi\phi_i transforming as O(N)O(N) vector. Specifically, we study multiple four-point correlators of the leading O(N)O(N) vector ϕi\phi_i and the O(N)O(N) singlet σ\sigma. The crossing symmetry of the four-point functions and the unitarity condition provide nontrivial constraints on the scaling dimensions (Δϕ\Delta_\phi, Δσ\Delta_\sigma) of ϕi\phi_i and σ\sigma. With reasonable assumptions on the gaps between scaling dimensions of ϕi\phi_i (σ\sigma) and the next O(N)O(N) vector (singlet) scalar, we are able to isolate the scaling dimensions (Δϕ(\Delta_\phi, Δσ)\Delta_\sigma) in small islands. In particular, for large N=500N=500, the isolated region is highly consistent with the result obtained from large NN expansion. We also study the interacting O(N)O(N) CFTs for 1N1001\leqslant N\leqslant100. Isolated regions on (Δϕ,Δσ)(\Delta_\phi,\Delta_\sigma) plane are obtained using conformal bootstrap program with lower order of derivatives Λ\Lambda; however, they disappear after increasing Λ\Lambda. We think these islands are corresponding to interacting but nonunitary O(N)O(N) CFTs. Our results provide a lower bound on the critical value Nc>100N_c>100, below which the interacting O(N)O(N) CFTs turn into nonunitary. The critical value is unexpectedly large comparing with previous estimations.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07077,
  title  = {Bootstrapping Mixed Correlators in the Five Dimensional Critical O(N) Models},
  author = {Zhijin Li and Ning Su},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07077},
  year   = {2017}
}

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28 pages, 4 figures

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