Modular invariance and thermal effective field theory in CFT

K Allameh, E Shaghoulian - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025 - Springer
A bstract We use thermal effective field theory to derive that the coefficient of the first
subleading piece of the thermal free energy, c 1, is equal to the coefficient of the subleading …

Thermal one-point functions: CFT's with fermions, large d and large spin

JR David, S Kumar - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We apply the OPE inversion formula on thermal two-point functions of fermions to
obtain thermal one-point function of fermion bi-linears appearing in the corresponding OPE …

The ambient space formalism

E Parisini, K Skenderis, B Withers - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We present a new formalism to solve the kinematical constraints due to Weyl
invariance for CFTs in curved backgrounds and/or non-trivial states, and we apply it to …

Sum rules & Tauberian theorems at finite temperature

E Marchetto, A Miscioscia, E Pomoni - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We study CFTs at finite temperature and derive explicit sum rules for one-point
functions of operators by imposing the KMS condition and we explicitly estimate one-point …

One point functions in large N vector models at finite chemical potential

JR David, S Kumar - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025 - Springer
A bstract We evaluate the thermal one point function of higher spin currents in the critical
model of U (N) complex scalars interacting with a quartic potential and the U (N) Gross …

Gravitational chiral anomaly at finite temperature and density

C Corianò, M Cretì, S Lionetti, R Tommasi - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We investigate the gravitational anomaly vertex⟨ TTJ 5⟩(graviton—graviton—axial current)
under conditions of finite density and temperature. Through a direct analysis of perturbative …

Holographic thermal observables and M2-branes

N Bobev, J Hong, V Reys - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We use holography in conjunction with recent results from supersymmetric
localization to compute certain thermal observables for 3d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 holographic …

Conformal line defects at finite temperature

J Barrat, B Fiol, E Marchetto, A Miscioscia, E Pomoni - SciPost Physics, 2025 - scipost.org
We study conformal field theories at finite temperature in the presence of a temporal
conformal line defect, wrapping the thermal circle, akin to a Polyakov loop in gauge theories …

One-point thermal conformal blocks from four-point conformal integrals

K Alkalaev, S Mandrygin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We develop the thermal shadow formalism to study the conformal blocks
decomposition in D-dimensional conformal field theory on\({\mathbbm {S}} _ {\beta}^ 1\times …

Thermal one-point functions and their partial wave decomposition

I Burić, F Russo, V Schomerus, A Vichi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In this work we address partial wave decompositions of thermal one-point functions
in conformal field theories on S 1× S d− 1. With the help of Casimir differential equations we …