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SUMMARY:A CFT distance conjecture - Leonardo Rastelli (Stonybrook)
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CONTACT:Pietro Benetti Genolini
DESCRIPTION:We formulate a series of conjectures relating the geometry of 
 conformal manifolds to the spectrum of local operators in conformal field 
 theories in d > 2 spacetime dimensions. Our central conjecture is that all
  theories at infinite distance in the Zamolodchikov metric possess an emer
 gent higher-spin symmetry\, generated by an infinite tower of currents who
 se anomalous dimensions vanish exponentially in the distance. In the holog
 raphic context our conjectures are related to the Distance Conjecture in t
 he swampland program. We motivate and illustrate these conjectures by surv
 eying the landscape of superconformal field theories in three and four dim
 ensions.
LOCATION:Online (Zoom)
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