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Dynamics of Finite-Temperature Conformal Field Theories from Operator Product Expansion Inversion Formulas

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We apply the OPE inversion formula to thermal two-point functions of bosonic and fermionic CFTs in general odd dimensions. This allows us to analyze in detail the operator spectrum of these theories. We find that nontrivial thermal CFTs arise when the thermal mass satisfies an algebraic transcendental equation that ensures the absence of an infinite set of operators from the spectrum. The solutions of these gap equations for general odd dimensions are in general complex numbers and follow a particular pattern. We argue that this pattern unveils the large-$N$ vacuum structure of the corresponding theories at zero temperature.

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The analytic bootstrap at finite temperature

hep-th · 2025-06-06 · conditional · novelty 7.0

Universal dispersion-based formulae for thermal two-point functions of scalars that satisfy bootstrap axioms except clustering at infinite distance.

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hep-th · 2026-04-09 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

A thermal normal-ordering scheme yields systematic epsilon-expansions for thermal observables in PT-symmetric cubic and quintic O(N) models, agreeing with exact 2D results from minimal models M(2,5) and M(3,8)_D and providing higher-d extrapolations.

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