Conformal field theories in fractional dimensions.

Phys Rev Lett

Theoretical Physics Group, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Center for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Published: April 2014

We study the conformal bootstrap in fractional space-time dimensions, obtaining rigorous bounds on operator dimensions. Our results show strong evidence that there is a family of unitary conformal field theories connecting the 2D Ising model, the 3D Ising model, and the free scalar theory in 4D. We give numerical predictions for the leading operator dimensions and central charge in this family at different values of D and compare these to calculations of ϕ4 theory in the ϵ expansion.

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