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dS/dS and
Victor Gorbenko, Eva Silverstein, Gonzalo Torroba
The deformation of a conformal field theory has a dual description as a cutoff spacetime, at least at the level of pure 3d gravity. We generalize this deformation…
Walking, Weak first-order transitions, and Complex CFTs
Victor Gorbenko, Slava Rychkov, Bernardo Zan
We discuss walking behavior in gauge theories and weak first-order phase transitions in statistical physics. Despite appearing in very different systems (QCD below the conformal wi…
Walking, Weak first-order transitions, and Complex CFTs II. Two-dimensional Potts model at
Victor Gorbenko, Slava Rychkov, Bernardo Zan
We study complex CFTs describing fixed points of the two-dimensional -state Potts model with . Their existence is closely related to the weak first-order phase transition a…
Partition Function from Topological Gravity
Sergei Dubovsky, Victor Gorbenko, Guzman Hernandez-Chifflet
The deformation of a relativistic two-dimensional theory results in a solvable gravitational theory. Deformed scattering amplitudes can be obtained from coupling the un…