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 …

Celestial holography: An asymptotic symmetry perspective

L Donnay - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
We review the role that infinite-dimensional symmetries arising at the boundary of
asymptotically flat spacetimes play in the context of the celestial holography program. Once …

Snowmass white paper: the cosmological bootstrap

D Baumann, D Green, A Joyce, E Pajer… - SciPost Physics …, 2024 - scipost.org
This white paper summarizes recent progress in the cosmological bootstrap, an approach to
the study of the statistics of primordial fluctuations from consistency with unitarity, locality and …

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 …

Light-ray operators in conformal field theory

P Kravchuk, D Simmons-Duffin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We argue that every CFT contains light-ray operators labeled by a continuous spin
J. When J is a positive integer, light-ray operators become integrals of local operators over a …

The cosmological bootstrap: weight-shifting operators and scalar seeds

D Baumann, CD Pueyo, A Joyce, H Lee… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract A key insight of the bootstrap approach to cosmological correlations is the fact that
all correlators of slow-roll inflation can be reduced to a unique building block—the four-point …

Flat space amplitudes and conformal symmetry of the celestial sphere

S Pasterski, SH Shao, A Strominger - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The four-dimensional (4D) Lorentz group SL (2, C) acts as the two-dimensional (2D) global
conformal group on the celestial sphere at infinity where asymptotic 4D scattering states are …

Conformal basis for flat space amplitudes

S Pasterski, SH Shao - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We study solutions of the Klein-Gordon, Maxwell, and linearized Einstein equations in R 1,
d+ 1 that transform as d-dimensional conformal primaries under the Lorentz group SO (1, d+ …

The cosmological bootstrap: spinning correlators from symmetries and factorization

D Baumann, C Duaso Pueyo, A Joyce, H Lee… - SciPost Physics, 2021 - scipost.org
We extend the cosmological bootstrap to correlators involving massless particles with spin.
In de Sitter space, these correlators are constrained both by symmetries and by locality. In …

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 …