Just as exactly marginal operators allow one to deform a conformal field theory along the
space of theories known as the conformal manifold, appropriate operators on conformal …

A bstract It has long been conjectured that the large N deconfinement phase transition
of\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 SU (N) super-Yang-Mills corresponds via AdS/CFT to the Hawking …

A bstract Surface operators in the 6d (2, 0) theory at large N have a holographic description
in terms of M2 branes probing the AdS 7× S 4 M-theory background. The most symmetric …

A bstract Motivated by questions about quantum information and classification of quantum
field theories, we consider Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) in spacetime dimension d≥ 5 …

A bstract In this note, we study 1/4-and 1/2-BPS co-dimension two superconformal defects in
the 6d\(\mathcal {N}\)=(2, 0) AN− 1 SCFT at large N using their holographic descriptions as …

A bstract The giant graviton expansion of the line defect Schur index in four
dimensional\(\mathcal {N} 4\) U (N) SYM was recently proposed in arxiv: 2403.11543 to be …

A bstract Quantum field theories (QFT) in the presence of defects exhibit new types of
anomalies which play an important role in constraining the defect dynamics and defect …

A bstract We study co-dimension two monodromy defects in theories of conformally coupled
scalars and free Dirac fermions in arbitrary d dimensions. We characterise this family of …

Expectation values of surface operators suffer from logarithmic divergences reflecting a
conformal anomaly. In a holographic setting, where surface operators can be computed by a …

A bstract Conformal defects describe the universal behaviors of a conformal field theory
(CFT) in the presence of a boundary or more general impurities. The coupled critical system …