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 …
A bstract We develop new tools for isolating CFTs using the numerical bootstrap. A “cutting surface” algorithm for scanning OPE coefficients makes it possible to find islands in high …
D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We introduce SDPB: an open-source, parallelized, arbitrary-precision semidefinite program solver, designed for the conformal bootstrap. SDPB significantly outperforms less …
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 …
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 …
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 …
C Beem, L Rastelli - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract Every four-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) superconformal field theory comes equipped with an intricate algebraic invariant, the associated vertex operator algebra. The …
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 …
The analytic conformal bootstrap is an array of techniques to characterize, constrain, and solve strongly interacting quantum field theories using symmetries, causality, unitarity, and …