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7 papers

hep-th2026

Accurate bootstrap bounds from optimal interpolation

Cyuan-Han Chang, Vasiliy Dommes, Petr Kravchuk +2

We develop new methods for approximating conformal blocks as positive functions times polynomials, with applications to the numerical bootstrap. We argue that to obtain accurate bo…

hep-th2025

Seeing through the confinement screen: DGLAP/BFKL mixing and light-ray matching in QCD

Cyuan-Han Chang, Hao Chen, David Simmons-Duffin +1

We argue that collider observables such as hadron number flux can be matched onto a linear combination of detectors/light-ray operators in perturbative QCD. The spectrum of detecto…

hep-th2025

A genus-2 crossing equation in

David Simmons-Duffin, Yixin Xu

We explore a "genus-2" crossing equation obeyed by CFTs in general dimensions . This crossing equation relates two different decompositions of the "genus-2 partition funct…

hep-th2025

Weight Shifting Operators and Conformal Blocks

Denis Karateev, Petr Kravchuk, David Simmons-Duffin

We introduce a large class of conformally-covariant differential operators and a crossing equation that they obey. Together, these tools dramatically simplify calculations involvin…

hep-th2025

Regge trajectories, detectors, and distributions in the critical model

Yue-Zhou Li, David Simmons-Duffin

We explore light-ray operators in the critical O model in the large- limit, focusing on leading-twist and leading ``horizontal" trajectories. We distinguish between light-r…

hep-th2025

Bootstrapping the 3d Ising Stress Tensor

Cyuan-Han Chang, Vasiliy Dommes, Rajeev S. Erramilli +6

We compute observables of the critical 3d Ising model to high precision by applying the numerical conformal bootstrap to mixed correlators of the leading scalar operators and…