On renormalization group flows in four dimensions

Z Komargodski, A Schwimmer - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
A bstract We discuss some general aspects of renormalization group flows in four
dimensions. Every such flow can be reinterpreted in terms of a spontaneously broken …

Modular Hamiltonians for deformed half-spaces and the averaged null energy condition

T Faulkner, RG Leigh, O Parrikar, H Wang - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We study modular Hamiltonians corresponding to the vacuum state for deformed
half-spaces in relativistic quantum field theories on\({\mathrm {\mathbb {R}}}^{1, d-1}\). We …

Causality constraints in conformal field theory

T Hartman, S Jain, S Kundu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract Causality places nontrivial constraints on QFT in Lorentzian signature, for example
fixing the signs of certain terms in the low energy Lagrangian. In d dimensional conformal …

Emergent spacetime and holographic CFTs

S El-Showk, K Papadodimas - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We discuss universal properties of conformal field theories with holographic duals.
A central feature of these theories is the existence of a low-lying sector of operators whose …

The superconformal bootstrap

C Beem, M Lemos, P Liendo, L Rastelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract In this work we initiate the conformal bootstrap program for\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) super-
conformal field theories in four dimensions. We promote an abstract operator-algebraic …

Four-dimensional SCFTs from M5-branes

I Bah, C Beem, N Bobev, B Wecht - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We engineer a large new set of four-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 1\) superconformal
field theories by wrapping M5-branes on complex curves. We present new supersymmetric …

The (2, 0) superconformal bootstrap

C Beem, M Lemos, L Rastelli, BC van Rees - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
We develop the conformal bootstrap program for six-dimensional conformal field theories
with (2, 0) supersymmetry, focusing on the universal four-point function of stress tensor …

Lovelock theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence

XO Camanho, JD Edelstein… - General Relativity and …, 2014 - Springer
Lovelock theory is the natural extension of general relativity to higher dimensions. It can be
also thought of as a toy model for ghost-free higher curvature corrections in gravitational …

Holographic entanglement entropy in Lovelock gravities

J de Boer, M Kulaxizi, A Parnachev - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
We study entanglement entropies of simply connected surfaces in field theories dual to
Lovelock gravities. We consider Gauss-Bonnet and cubic Lovelock gravities in detail. In the …

A proof of the conformal collider bounds

DM Hofman, D Li, D Meltzer, D Poland… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we prove that the “conformal collider bounds” originally proposed in
[1] hold for any unitary parity-preserving conformal field theory (CFT) with a unique stress …