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Operator Content of Two-Dimensional Conformally Invariant Theories

John Cardy
- 01 Jan 1986 - 
- Vol. 270, Iss: 2, pp 186-204
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In this paper, it was shown how conformal invariance relates many numerically accessible properties of the transfer matrix of a critical system in a finite-width infinitely long strip to bulk universal quantities.
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This article is published in Nuclear Physics.The article was published on 1986-01-01. It has received 1951 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rational conformal field theory & Conformal symmetry.

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A holographic interpretation of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes

TL;DR: In this article, generalized forms of the Cardy entropy for a selection of asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes were derived and interpreted for the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole.
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H-branes and chiral strings

TL;DR: In this article, a new class of D-branes with a single null direction was constructed, called H-brane, which describes quantum horizons, and they showed how one can get a space/phase space transmutation near the horizon.
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Universal Bounds in Even-Spin CFTs

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) having only even-spin primary operators (with no extended chiral algebra and with right-and left-central charges c, with dimension Δ 1 satisfying
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High energy modular bootstrap, global symmetries and defects

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived Cardy-like formulas for the growth of operators in different sectors of unitary 2D CFT in the presence of topological defect lines by putting an upper and lower bound on the number of states with scaling dimension in the interval [∆ − δ, ∆ + δ] for large ∆ at fixed δ.
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Modular invariant partition function of critical dense polymers

TL;DR: In this paper, a modified matrix trace is proposed to construct a conformal torus for critical dense polymers on the torus by using a representation of the enlarged periodic Temperley-Lieb algebra with a parameter v that keeps track of the winding of defects on the cylinder.
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Finite size scaling analysis of Ising model block distribution functions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the distribution function P L ( s ) of the local order parameters in finite blocks of linear dimension L for Ising lattices of dimension d = 2,3 and 4.
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Conformal invariance, the central charge, and universal finite-size amplitudes at criticality.

TL;DR: It is shown that for conformally invariant two-dimensional systems, the amplitude of the finite-size corrections to the free energy of an infinitely long strip of width L at criticality is linearly related to the conformal anomaly number c, for various boundary conditions.
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