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 …

Symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity

D Harlow, H Ooguri - Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2021 - Springer
In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old
conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry …

Analyticity in spin in conformal theories

S Caron-Huot - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Conformal theory correlators are characterized by the spectrum and three-point
functions of local operators. We present a formula which extracts this data as an analytic …

From dS to AdS and back

C Sleight, M Taronna - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We describe in more detail the general relation uncovered in our previous work
between boundary correlators in de Sitter (dS) and in Euclidean anti-de Sitter (EAdS) space …

Cosmological cutting rules

S Melville, E Pajer - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Primordial perturbations in our universe are believed to have a quantum origin,
and can be described by the wavefunction of the universe (or equivalently, cosmological …

Bootstrapping inflationary correlators in Mellin space

C Sleight, M Taronna - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We develop a Mellin space approach to boundary correlation functions in anti-de
Sitter (AdS) and de Sitter (dS) spaces. Using the Mellin-Barnes representation of correlators …

The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT

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 …

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 …

From locality and unitarity to cosmological correlators

S Jazayeri, E Pajer, D Stefanyszyn - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract In the standard approach to deriving inflationary predictions, we evolve a vacuum
state in time according to the rules of a given model. Since the only observables are the …