Twist accumulation in conformal field theory: a rigorous approach to the lightcone bootstrap

DOI10.1007/S00220-023-04767-WarXiv2212.04893OpenAlexW4317704495MaRDI QIDQ6135920FDOQ6135920

Authors: Sridip Pal, Jiaxin Qiao, Slava Rychkov 

Publication date: 28 August 2023

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that in any unitary CFT, a twist gap in the spectrum of operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalar primary operators (i.e. $phiimesphi$) implies the existence of a family of primary operators $mathcal{O}_{au,ell}$ with spins $ellightarrowinfty$ and twists $auightarrow2Delt{a}_{phi}$ in the same OPE spectrum. A similar twist-accumulation result is proven for any two-dimensional Virasoro-invariant, modular-invariant, unitary CFT with a normalizable vacuum and central charge $c>1$, where we show that a twist gap in the spectrum of Virasoro primaries implies the existence of a family of Virasoro primaries $$ with $hightarrowinfty$ and $$ (the same is true with $h$ and $$ interchanged). We summarize the similarity of the two problems and propose a general formulation of the lightcone bootstrap.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04893

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bootstrap, jackknife and other resampling methods (62F40) Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20) (Generalized) eigenfunction expansions of linear operators; rigged Hilbert spaces (47A70)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Boundary Liouville field theory: boundary three-point function
• Clebsch-Gordan and Racah-Wigner coefficients for a continuous series of representations of \(\mathcal U_q(\mathfrak{sl}(2,\mathbb R))\)
• Eikonalization of conformal blocks
• Bootstrapping the \(O\)(\(N\) ) vector models
• Quantum gravity partition functions in three dimensions
• The analytic bootstrap and AdS superhorizon locality
• Comments on operators with large spin
• Coupled Potts models: self-duality and fixed point structure.
• Dimensional reduction for conformal blocks
• Constraints on higher spin \(\mathrm{CFT}_{2}\)
• The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT
• Analyticity in spin in conformal theories
• A Tauberian theorem for the conformal bootstrap
• Modular bootstrap revisited
• Analytic Euclidean bootstrap
• Quantum Regge trajectories and the Virasoro analytic bootstrap
• A spacetime derivation of the Lorentzian OPE inversion formula
• Light cone bootstrap in general 2D CFTs and entanglement from light cone singularity
• Recursion relations for conformal blocks
• Distributions in CFT. II: Minkowski space
• Modular invariance, Tauberian theorems and microcanonical entropy
• Sphere packing and quantum gravity
• Fermion conformal bootstrap in 4d
• Lightcone expansions of conformal blocks in closed form
• The Lorentzian inversion formula and the spectrum of the 3d O(2) CFT
• Bound on asymptotics of magnitude of three point coefficients in 2D CFT
• Factorized lightcone expansion of conformal blocks

Cited In (11)

• Spin-statistics for black hole microstates
• Slightly broken higher-spin current in bosonic and fermionic QED in the large-\(N\) limit
• The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT
• Multipoint lightcone bootstrap from differential equations
• Large \(N\) analytical functional bootstrap. I: 1D CFTs and total positivity
• Easy bootstrap for the 3D Ising model: a hybrid approach of the lightcone bootstrap and error minimization methods
• Missing local operators, zeros, and twist-4 trajectories
• Toward null-state equations in \(d > 2\)
• Comb channel lightcone bootstrap: triple-twist anomalous dimensions
• Holography and Regge phases with U(1) charge
• Angular fractals in thermal QFT

This page was built for publication: Twist accumulation in conformal field theory: a rigorous approach to the lightcone bootstrap

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q6135920)