A CFT distance conjecture

E Perlmutter, L Rastelli, C Vafa, I Valenzuela - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We formulate a series of conjectures relating the geometry of conformal manifolds
to the spectrum of local operators in conformal field theories in d> 2 spacetime dimensions …

On higher-spin points and infinite distances in conformal manifolds

F Baume, J Calderón-Infante - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Distances in the conformal manifold, the space of CFTs related by marginal
deformations, can be measured in terms of the Zamolodchikov metric. Part of the CFT …

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 …

Holographic evidence for nonsupersymmetric conformal manifolds

A Giambrone, A Guarino, E Malek, H Samtleben… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We provide the first holographic evidence for the existence of a nonsupersymmetric
conformal manifold arising from exactly marginal but supersymmetry-breaking deformations …

Decoding a three-dimensional conformal manifold

M Baggio, N Bobev, SM Chester, E Lauria… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We study the one-dimensional complex conformal manifold that controls the
infrared dynamics of a three-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 supersymmetric theory of three …

[HTML][HTML] Holographic aspects of four dimensional N= 2 SCFTs and their marginal deformations

C Núñez, D Roychowdhury, S Speziali, S Zacarías - Nuclear Physics B, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract we study the holographic description of N= 2 Super Conformal Field Theories in
four dimensions first given by Gaiotto and Maldacena. We present new expressions that …

Conformal manifolds: ODEs from OPEs

C Behan - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract The existence of an exactly marginal deformation in a conformal field theory is very
special, but it is not well understood how this is reflected in the allowed dimensions and OPE …

Discreteness and integrality in conformal field theory

J Kaidi, E Perlmutter - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Various observables in compact CFTs are required to obey positivity, discreteness,
and integrality. Positivity forms the crux of the conformal bootstrap, but understanding of the …

Geometry of conformal manifolds and the inversion formula

B Balthazar, C Córdova - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract Families of conformal field theories are naturally endowed with a Riemannian
geometry which is locally encoded by correlation functions of exactly marginal operators. We …

Holographic 3d = 1 conformal manifolds

N Bobev, FF Gautason, J van Muiden - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We construct and study several examples of continuous families of AdS 4\(\mathcal
{N}\)= 1 solutions of four-dimensional maximal gauged supergravity. These backgrounds …