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

DOI10.1007/S00220-023-04767-WMaRDI QIDQ6135920zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sridip Pal, Jiaxin Qiao, Slava Rychkov

Publication date 28 August 2023

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

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)

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.

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