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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 CFT2_2 in 2D Minkowski space admit a single-valued, conformally-invariant extension to the Lorentzian signature torus provided that the S1×S1S^1\times S^1 spatial and temporal radii are equal. The result extends to Lorentzian CFTD_D on equal-radii SD1×S1S^{D-1}\times S^1 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

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