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Group Theory and the CFT Distance Conjecture: Tensionless Strings Have No (Co)Weight
Florent Baume, Fabio Mantegazza
We perform a systematic survey of the Hagedorn behaviour at infinite-distance points in the conformal manifold of four-dimensional large- Superconformal Field Th…
Controlled Chaos in 4D SCFTs
Florent Baume, Atakan Çavuşoğlu, Vivek Chakrabhavi +1
Chaotic dynamics play an important role in a number of physical systems. One of the qualitative hallmarks of this behavior is the appearance of a sufficiently "complex" spectrum of…
The Weight of Little Strings: T-duality and Hasse Diagrams
Hamza Ahmed, Florent Baume, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann
We study the worldvolume theories of stacks of heterotic NS5-branes probing a transverse singularity . We revisit and extend the original clas…
Constraints on RG Flows from Protected Operators
Florent Baume, Alessio Miscioscia, Elli Pomoni
We consider protected operators with the same conformal dimensions in the ultraviolet and infrared fixed point. We derive a sum rule for the difference between the two-point functi…
Bounds and Dualities of Type II Little String Theories
Florent Baume, Paul-Konstantin Oehlmann, Fabian Ruehle
We explore the symmetry structure of Type II Little String Theories and their T-dualities. We construct these theories both from the bottom-up perspective starting with seed Superc…
The Bestiary of 6d (1,0) SCFTs: Nilpotent Orbits and Anomalies
Florent Baume, Craig Lawrie
Many six-dimensional SCFTs are known to fall into families labelled by nilpotent orbits of certain simple Lie algebras. For each of the three infinite series of such famili…
SymTrees and Multi-Sector QFTs
Florent Baume, Jonathan J. Heckman, Max Hübner +3
The global symmetries of a -dimensional QFT can, in many cases, be captured in terms of a -dimensional symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT). In this work we constru…
On Higher-Spin Points and Infinite Distances in Conformal Manifolds
Florent Baume, José Calderón-Infante
Distances in the conformal manifold, the space of CFTs related by marginal deformations, can be measured in terms of the Zamolodchikov metric. Part of the CFT Distance Conjecture p…
Super-Spin Chains for 6D SCFTs
Florent Baume, Jonathan J. Heckman, Craig Lawrie
Nearly all 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have a partial tensor branch description in terms of a generalized quiver gauge theory consisting of a long one-dimensional spin…
Bootstrapping (D, D) Conformal Matter
Florent Baume, Craig Lawrie
We use the numerical conformal bootstrap to study six-dimensional superconformal field theories with flavor symmetry . We present evidence t…
Two 6d origins of 4d SCFTs: class and 6d (1,0) on a torus
Florent Baume, Monica Jinwoo Kang, Craig Lawrie
We consider all 4d theories of class arising from the compactification of exceptional 6d SCFTs on a three-punctured sphere with a simple punct…
Tackling the SDC in AdS with CFTs
Florent Baume, José Calderón Infante
We study the Swampland Distance Conjecture for supersymmetric theories with AdS backgrounds and fixed radius through their SCFT holographic duals. By the Mald…
6D SCFTs, 4D SCFTs, Conformal Matter, and Spin Chains
Florent Baume, Jonathan J. Heckman, Craig Lawrie
Recent work has established a uniform characterization of most 6D SCFTs in terms of generalized quivers with conformal matter. Compactification of the partial tensor branch deforma…
Instanton Corrections and Emergent Strings
Florent Baume, Fernando Marchesano, Max Wiesner
We study limits of infinite distance in the moduli space of 4d string compactifications, in which instanton effects dominate. We first consider trajectories in th…
Superconformal Blocks for Mixed 1/2-BPS Correlators with R-symmetry
Florent Baume, Michael Fuchs, Craig Lawrie
For SCFTs with an R-symmetry, we determine the superconformal blocks that contribute to the four-point correlation function of a priori distinct half-BPS superconformal pri…
When Rational Sections Become Cyclic: Gauge Enhancement in F-theory via Mordell--Weil Torsion
Florent Baume, Mirjam Cvetic, Craig Lawrie +1
We explore novel gauge enhancements from abelian to non-simply-connected gauge groups in F-theory. To this end we consider complex structure deformations of elliptic fibrations wit…
Backreacted Axion Field Ranges in String Theory
Florent Baume, Eran Palti
String theory axions are interesting candidates for fields whose potential might be controllable over super-Planckian field ranges and therefore as possible candidates for inflaton…
On and F-Theory GUTs
Florent Baume, Eran Palti, Sebastian Schwieger
We study correlations between the massless field spectra of F-theory fibrations supporting an gauge symmetry extended by Abelian symmetries and the spectra that arise from…
The local Callan-Symanzik equation: structure and applications
Florent Baume, Boaz Keren-Zur, Riccardo Rattazzi +1
The local Callan-Symanzik equation describes the response of a quantum field theory to local scale transformations in the presence of background sources. The consistency conditions…
The dilaton Wess-Zumino action in higher dimensions
Florent Baume, Boaz Keren-Zur
We present a general formula for the Wess-Zumino action associated with the Weyl anomaly, given in a curved background for any even number of dimensions. The result is obtained by…