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 conformal bootstrap

D Poland, D Simmons-Duffin - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
The conformal bootstrap was proposed in the 1970s as a strategy for calculating the
properties of second-order phase transitions. After spectacular success elucidating two …

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 …

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 …

Harmonic analysis and mean field theory

D Karateev, P Kravchuk, D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We review some aspects of harmonic analysis for the Euclidean conformal group,
including conformally-invariant pairings, the Plancherel measure, and the shadow transform …

A study of quantum field theories in AdS at finite coupling

D Carmi, L Di Pietro, S Komatsu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We study the O (N) and Gross-Neveu models at large N on AdS d+ 1 background.
Thanks to the isometries of AdS, the observables in these theories are constrained by the …

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 …

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 …

A proof of the conformal collider bounds

DM Hofman, D Li, D Meltzer, D Poland… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we prove that the “conformal collider bounds” originally proposed in
[1] hold for any unitary parity-preserving conformal field theory (CFT) with a unique stress …