Conformal Field Theory with Periodic Time
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-12-11 v1
Abstract
It is shown that time-ordered correlation functions of a unitary CFT in 2D Minkowski space admit a single-valued, conformally-invariant extension to the Lorentzian signature torus provided that the spatial and temporal radii are equal. The result extends to Lorentzian CFT on equal-radii under the assumption that branch cuts occur only when a pair of operator insertions are null separated.
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@article{arxiv.2512.09089,
title = {Conformal Field Theory with Periodic Time},
author = {Walker Melton and Andrew Strominger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09089},
year = {2025}
}
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17 pages, 2 figures