AdS bulk locality from sharp CFT bounds

S Caron-Huot, D Mazáč, L Rastelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract It is a long-standing conjecture that any CFT with a large central charge and a large
gap∆ gap in the spectrum of higher-spin single-trace operators must be dual to a local …

Towards the non-perturbative cosmological bootstrap

M Hogervorst, J Penedones, KS Vaziri - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study quantum field theory on a de Sitter spacetime dS d+ 1 background. Our
main tool is the Hilbert space decomposition in irreducible unitary representations of its …

Dispersive CFT sum rules

S Caron-Huot, D Mazáč, L Rastelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We give a unified treatment of dispersive sum rules for four-point correlators in
conformal field theory. We call a sum rule “dispersive” if it has double zeros at all double …

Bootstrability in defect CFT: integrated correlators and sharper bounds

A Cavaglià, N Gromov, J Julius, M Preti - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We continue to develop Bootstrability—a method merging Integrability and
Conformal Bootstrap to extract CFT data in integrable conformal gauge theories such …

The analytic functional bootstrap. Part II. Natural bases for the crossing equation

D Mazáč, MF Paulos - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We clarify the relationships between different approaches to the conformal
bootstrap. A central role is played by the so-called extremal functionals. They are linear …

Nonperturbative Mellin amplitudes: existence, properties, applications

J Penedones, JA Silva, A Zhiboedov - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We argue that nonperturbative CFT correlation functions admit a Mellin amplitude
representation. Perturbative Mellin representation readily follows. We discuss the main …

A conformal dispersion relation: correlations from absorption

D Carmi, S Caron-Huot - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We introduce the analog of Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations for correlators of
four scalar operators in an arbitrary conformal field theory. The correlator is expressed as an …

Sphere packing and quantum gravity

T Hartman, D Mazáč, L Rastelli - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to con-strain the
spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular …

An analytic approach to BCFTd

D Mazáč, L Rastelli, X Zhou - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We develop an analytic approach to Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT),
focussing on the two-point function of a general pair of scalar primary operators. The …

Crossing symmetric dispersion relations for Mellin amplitudes

R Gopakumar, A Sinha, A Zahed - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We consider manifestly crossing symmetric dispersion relations for Mellin amplitudes of
scalar four point correlators in conformal field theories. This allows us to set up the …