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 …

Top-down holography in an asymptotically flat spacetime

K Costello, NM Paquette, A Sharma - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We propose a holographic duality for a four dimensional Wess-Zumino-Witten model with
target manifold SO (8), coupled to scalar-flat Kähler gravity on an asymptotically flat, four …

Burns space and holography

K Costello, NM Paquette, A Sharma - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We elaborate on various aspects of our top-down celestial holographic duality
wherein the semiclassical bulk spacetime is a 4d asymptotically flat, self-dual Kähler …

Coulomb and Higgs branches from canonical singularities. Part 0

C Closset, S Schäfer-Nameki, YN Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Five-and four-dimensional superconformal field theories with eight supercharges
arise from canonical threefold singularities in M-theory and Type IIB string theory …

A semidefinite program solver for the conformal bootstrap

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 …

The celestial chiral algebra of self-dual gravity on Eguchi-Hanson space

R Bittleston, S Heuveline, D Skinner - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We consider the twistor description of classical self-dual Einstein gravity in the
presence of a defect operator wrapping a certain ℂℙ 1. The backreaction of this defect …

Gluon scattering in AdS from CFT

LF Alday, C Behan, P Ferrero, X Zhou - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We present a systematic study of holographic correlators in a vast array of SCFTs
with non-maximal superconformal symmetry. These theories include 4d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 …

Bootstrapping mixed correlators in the 3D Ising model

F Kos, D Poland, D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract We study the conformal bootstrap for systems of correlators involving nonidentical
operators. The constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for such mixed correlators can …

Universality of long-distance AdS physics from the CFT bootstrap

AL Fitzpatrick, J Kaplan, MT Walters - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014 - Springer
A bstract We begin by explicating a recent proof of the cluster decomposition principle in
AdS≥ 4 from the CFT≥ 3 bootstrap. The CFT argument also computes the leading …