Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line

Abstract We study a conformal field theory with cubic anisotropic symmetry in presence of a line defect. We compute the correlators of the low lying defect operators using Feynman diagrams and derive explicit expressions for the two, three and four point defect correlators at the cubic fixed point i...

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Main Authors: Parijat Dey, Kausik Ghosh
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Published: SpringerOpen 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)129
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description Abstract We study a conformal field theory with cubic anisotropic symmetry in presence of a line defect. We compute the correlators of the low lying defect operators using Feynman diagrams and derive explicit expressions for the two, three and four point defect correlators at the cubic fixed point in 4 – ϵ dimensions to O(ϵ). We also compute the defect g-function for this setup and demonstrate that this is in agreement with the g-theorem, which states that the g-function is monotonic under the renormalisation group flow along the defect. Next, we focus on conformal bootstrap techniques to determine the CFT data associated with the defect operators, which is the main objective of the paper. We utilize the framework of crossing symmetric Polyakov bootstrap and compute the averaged CFT data to O(ϵ) up to a finite number of ambiguities. We comment on unmixing the CFT data for the double trace operators at O(ϵ) and use this to compute the O(ϵ 2) data. Finally, we study these defect correlators non-perturbatively using numerical methods and isolate them near the free theory limit close to four dimensions.
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spelling doaj-art-224b61075f074e25b5a8e25323749b492025-08-20T02:20:41ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-10-0120241013510.1007/JHEP10(2024)129Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a lineParijat Dey0Kausik Ghosh1Department of Astrophysics and High Energy Physics, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic SciencesLaboratoire de Physique Théorique, de l’École Normale Supérieure, PSL University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06Abstract We study a conformal field theory with cubic anisotropic symmetry in presence of a line defect. We compute the correlators of the low lying defect operators using Feynman diagrams and derive explicit expressions for the two, three and four point defect correlators at the cubic fixed point in 4 – ϵ dimensions to O(ϵ). We also compute the defect g-function for this setup and demonstrate that this is in agreement with the g-theorem, which states that the g-function is monotonic under the renormalisation group flow along the defect. Next, we focus on conformal bootstrap techniques to determine the CFT data associated with the defect operators, which is the main objective of the paper. We utilize the framework of crossing symmetric Polyakov bootstrap and compute the averaged CFT data to O(ϵ) up to a finite number of ambiguities. We comment on unmixing the CFT data for the double trace operators at O(ϵ) and use this to compute the O(ϵ 2) data. Finally, we study these defect correlators non-perturbatively using numerical methods and isolate them near the free theory limit close to four dimensions.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)129Global SymmetriesRenormalization and RegularizationRenormalization GroupScale and Conformal Symmetries
spellingShingle Parijat Dey
Kausik Ghosh
Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
Journal of High Energy Physics
Global Symmetries
Renormalization and Regularization
Renormalization Group
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
title Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
title_full Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
title_fullStr Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
title_full_unstemmed Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
title_short Bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
title_sort bootstrapping conformal defect operators on a line
topic Global Symmetries
Renormalization and Regularization
Renormalization Group
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)129
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