Unlike conformal boundary conditions, conformal defects of Virasoro minimal models lack classification. Alternatively to the defect perturbation theory and the truncated conformal space approach, we employ open string field ...

We classify the class S theories of type E-7. These are four-dimensional N = 2 superconformal field theories arising from the compactification of the E-7 (2, 0) theory on a punctured Riemann surface, C. The classification ...

We investigate the hexagon formalism in the planar 4d conformal fishnet theory. This theory arises from N = 4 SYM by a deformation that preserves both conformal symmetry and integrability. Based on this relation, we obtain ...

Abstract: We discuss consequences of the breaking of conformal symmetry by a flat or spherical extended operator. We adapt the embedding formalism to the study of correlation functions of symmetric traceless tensors in the ...

We compute the one-loop beta functions for the Type II superstring using the pure spinor formalism in a generic supergravity background. It is known that the classical pure spinor BRST symmetry puts the background fields ...

We review a formalism of superstring quantization with manifest six-dimensional spacetime supersymmetry, and apply it to AdS(3) x S-3 backgrounds with Ramond-Ramond flux. The resulting description is a conformal field ...

We use the method of asymptotic expansions to study the OPE limit of a fourpoint function of protected operators in N= 4 SYM. We use a new method for evaluating the resulting propagator-type integrals and then extract the ...

We obtain all planar four-point correlators of half-BPS operators in N= 4 SYM up to five loops. The ansatz for the integrand is fixed partially by imposing lightcone OPE relations between different correlators. We then fix ...

Braneworld theories are often described as low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) featuring an infinitely thin 3-brane and 4D fields exactly localized on it. We investigate whether an exactly localized braneworld can ...

Up to now the raise-and-peel model was the single known example of a one-dimensional stochastic process where one can observe conformal invariance. The model has one parameter. Depending on its value one has a gapped phase, ...