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The analytic bootstrap at finite temperature

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We propose new universal formulae for thermal two-point functions of scalar operators based on their analytic structure, constructed to manifestly satisfy all the bootstrap conditions. We derive a dispersion relation in the complexified time plane, which fixes the correlator up to an additive constant and theory-dependent dynamical information. At non-zero spatial separation we introduce a formula for the thermal two-point function obtained by summing over images of the dispersion relation result obtained in the OPE regime. This construction satisfies all thermal bootstrap conditions, with the exception of clustering at infinite distance, which must be verified on a case-by-case basis. We test our results both in weakly and strongly-coupled theories. In particular, we show that the asymptotic behavior for the heavy sector proposed in~\cite{Marchetto:2023xap} and its correction can be explicitly derived from the dispersion relation. We combine analytical and numerical results to compute the thermal two-point function of the energy operator in the $3d$ Ising model and find agreement with Monte Carlo simulations.

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hep-th 8 gr-qc 1

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2026 8 2025 1

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$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Field Theories at Finite Temperature

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.

Thermal conformal partial waves from flat-space and defect CFT

hep-th · 2026-05-26 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Establishes correspondence between flat, thermal, and defect conformal partial waves via shadow formalism, obtaining thermal blocks from flat four-point and defect two-point functions and reducing the Casimir equation diagonally.

A thermal representation for conformal ladder integrals

hep-th · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Conformal ladder integrals are represented via thermal free energies of massive scalars, obey a second-order differential equation in even dimensions at any loop order, and admit an all-loop resummation for arbitrary D.

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