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Published March 2017 | Submitted + Published
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The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT

Abstract

We compute numerically the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several operators in the 3d Ising CFT, and then try to reverse-engineer the solution to crossing symmetry analytically. Our key tool is a set of new techniques for computing infinite sums of SL(2, RR ) conformal blocks. Using these techniques, we solve the lightcone bootstrap to all orders in an asymptotic expansion in large spin, and suggest a strategy for going beyond the large spin limit. We carry out the first steps of this strategy for the 3d Ising CFT, deriving analytic approximations for the dimensions and OPE coefficients of several infinite families of operators in terms of the initial data {Δ_σ, Δ_ϵ, f_(σσϵ), f_(ϵϵϵ), c_T}. The analytic results agree with numerics to high precision for about 100 low-twist operators (correctly accounting for O(1) mixing effects between large-spin families). Plugging these results back into the crossing equations, we obtain approximate analytic constraints on the initial data.

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© 2017 The Authors. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons. Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. Received: February 14, 2017. Accepted: February 15, 2017. Published: March 15, 2017. I am grateful to Chris Beem, Simon Caron-Huot, Abhijit Gadde, Joanna Huey, Juan Maldacena, Eric Perlmutter, David Poland, Slava Rychkov, Douglas Stanford, and Balt van Rees for discussions. Thanks to Douglas Stanford and Slava Rychkov for comments on the draft. I am supported by DOE grant DE-SC0009988, a William D. Loughlin Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, and Simons Foundation grant 488657 (Simons Collaboration on the Non-perturbative Bootstrap). The computations in this paper were run on the Hyperion computing cluster supported by the School of Natural Sciences Computing Staff at the Institute for Advanced Study.

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