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 …

[HTML][HTML] Selected topics in analytic conformal bootstrap: A guided journey

A Bissi, A Sinha, X Zhou - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
This review aims to offer a pedagogical introduction to the analytic conformal bootstrap
program via a journey through selected topics. We review analytic methods which include …

Analyticity in spin in conformal theories

S Caron-Huot - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Conformal theory correlators are characterized by the spectrum and three-point
functions of local operators. We present a formula which extracts this data as an analytic …

The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT

D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
We compute numerically the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several operators in the 3d
Ising CFT, and then try to reverse-engineer the solution to crossing symmetry analytically …

Witten diagrams revisited: the AdS geometry of conformal blocks

E Hijano, P Kraus, E Perlmutter, R Snively - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We develop a new method for decomposing Witten diagrams into conformal
blocks. The steps involved are elementary, requiring no explicit integration, and operate …

Causality constraints in conformal field theory

T Hartman, S Jain, S Kundu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract Causality places nontrivial constraints on QFT in Lorentzian signature, for example
fixing the signs of certain terms in the low energy Lagrangian. In d dimensional conformal …

Large spin perturbation theory for conformal field theories

LF Alday - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We consider conformal field theories around points of large twist degeneracy. Examples of
this are theories with weakly broken higher spin symmetry and perturbations around …

On the CFT operator spectrum at large global charge

S Hellerman, D Orlando, S Reffert… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We calculate the anomalous dimensions of operators with large global charge J in
certain strongly coupled conformal field theories in three dimensions, such as the O (2) …

A Mellin space approach to the conformal bootstrap

R Gopakumar, A Kaviraj, K Sen, A Sinha - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We describe in more detail our approach to the conformal bootstrap which uses the
Mellin representation of CFT d four point functions and expands them in terms of crossing …

Conformal bootstrap in Mellin space

R Gopakumar, A Kaviraj, K Sen, A Sinha - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We propose a new approach towards analytically solving for the dynamical content of
conformal field theories (CFTs) using the bootstrap philosophy. This combines the original …