Abstract
We provide evidence for the existence of non-trivial unitary conformal boundary conditions for a three-dimensional free scalar field, which can be obtained via a coupling to the m’th unitary diagonal minimal model. For large m we can demonstrate the existence of the fixed point perturbatively, and for smaller values we use the numerical conformal bootstrap to obtain a sharp kink that smoothly matches onto the perturbative predictions. The wider numerical analysis also yields universal bounds for the spectrum of any other boundary condition for the free scalar field. A second kink in these bounds hints at a second class of non-standard boundary conditions, as yet unidentified.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 146 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2022 |
Keywords
- Conformal Field Theory
- Conformal and W Symmetry
- Renormalization Group