The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications

D Poland, S Rychkov, A Vichi - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2019 - APS
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 …

The S-matrix bootstrap. Part I: QFT in AdS

MF Paulos, J Penedones, J Toledo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We propose a strategy to study massive Quantum Field Theory (QFT) using
conformal bootstrap methods. The idea is to consider QFT in hyperbolic space and study …

Graviton partial waves and causality in higher dimensions

S Caron-Huot, YZ Li, J Parra-Martinez… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Do gravitational interactions respect the basic principles of relativity and quantum
mechanics? We show that any graviton S-matrix that satisfies these assumptions cannot …

Weight shifting operators and conformal blocks

D Karateev, P Kravchuk, D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We introduce a large class of conformally-covariant differential operators and a
crossing equation that they obey. Together, these tools dramatically simplify calculations …

TASI lectures on AdS/CFT

J Penedones - New Frontiers in Fields and Strings: TASI 2015 …, 2017 - World Scientific
We introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence as a natural extension of QFT in a fixed AdS
background. We start by reviewing some general concepts of CFT, including the embedding …

BCJ amplitude relations for Anti-de Sitter boundary correlators in embedding space

P Diwakar, A Herderschee, R Roiban… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We generalize the color/kinematics duality of flat-space scattering amplitudes to the
embedding space formulation of AdS boundary correlators. Kinematic numerators and …

Counting conformal correlators

P Kravchuk, D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We introduce simple group-theoretic techniques for classifying conformallyinvariant
tensor structures. With them, we classify tensor structures of general n-point functions of non …

Multipoint conformal blocks in the comb channel

V Rosenhaus - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract Conformal blocks are the building blocks for correlation functions in conformal field
theories. The four-point function is the most well-studied case. We consider conformal blocks …

Spinning operators and defects in conformal field theory

E Lauria, M Meineri, E Trevisani - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We study the kinematics of correlation functions of local and extended operators in
a conformal field theory. We present a new method for constructing the tensor structures …

The 3d stress-tensor bootstrap

A Dymarsky, F Kos, P Kravchuk, D Poland… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We study the conformal bootstrap for 4-point functions of stress tensors in parity-
preserving 3d CFTs. To set up the bootstrap equations, we analyze the constraints of …