Published June 14, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Cut-touching linear functionals in the conformal bootstrap

  • 1. CERN, Theoretical Physics Department, 1211 Geneva 23 (Switzerland)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Département de Physique de l'ENS, École Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University Paris 06, CNRS, 75005 Paris (France)

Description

The modern conformal bootstrap program often employs the method of linear functionals to derive the numerical or analytical bounds on the CFT data. These functionals must have a crucial "swapping" property, allowing to swap infinite summation with the action of the functional in the conformal bootstrap sum rule. Swapping is easy to justify for the popular functionals involving finite sums of derivatives. However, it is far from obvious for "cut-touching" functionals, involving integration over regions where conformal block decomposition does not converge uniformly. Functionals of this type were recently considered by Mazác in his work on analytic derivation of optimal bootstrap bounds. We derive general swapping criteria for the cut-touching functionals, and check in a few explicit examples that Mazác's functionals pass our criteria.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)076; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/20509

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2017
Journal Issue
06
Journal Page Range
p. 76
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
49049220
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; DECOMPOSITION; FUNCTIONALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SUM RULES; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
CHEMICAL REACTIONS; EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES

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Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP06(2017)076; ARXIV:1705.01357; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:20509
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)