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20242026
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5 papers

hep-th2026

How to get an interacting conformal line defect for free theories

Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall, Dongsheng Ge, Christopher P. Herzog

We argue that interacting conformal line defects in free quantum field theories can exist, provided that inversion symmetry is broken. Important for our demonstration is the existe…

hep-th2025

Magnetised Bounds for Conformal Field Theories

Christopher P. Herzog, William H. Pannell, Biswajit Sahoo +1

Aspects of parity-preserving, three-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a global symmetry in the presence of a background magnetic field are investigated. A loc…

hep-th2025

An Atlas for 3d Conformal Field Theories with a U(1) Global Symmetry

Samuel Bartlett-Tisdall, Christopher P. Herzog, Vladimir Schaub

We present a collection of numerical bootstrap computations for 3d CFTs with a U(1) global symmetry. We test the accuracy of our method and fix conventions through a computation of…

hep-th2024

A Nonlocal Schwinger Model

Ludovic Fraser-Taliente, Christopher P. Herzog, Abhay Shrestha

We solve a system of massless fermions constrained to two space-time dimensions interacting via a space-time dimensional Maxwell field. Through dimensional reduction to the def…

hep-th2024

An Interacting, Higher Derivative, Boundary Conformal Field Theory

Christopher P. Herzog, Yanjun Zhou

We consider a higher derivative scalar field theory in the presence of a boundary and a classically marginal interaction. We first investigate the free limit where the scalar obeys…