Constraints on perturbative RG flows in six dimensions

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Constraints on perturbative RG flows in six dimensions

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Null energy constraints on two-dimensional RG flows

Flux correlators and semiclassics

Bootstrapping smooth conformal defects in Chern-Simons-matter theories

Bootstrapping amplitudes of scalar particles

Holography and localization of information in quantum gravity

Topological photonic transport in disordered scattering networks

Physical and unphysical regimes of self-consistent many-body perturbation theory

Nonperturbative aspects of scattering amplitudes

Identifying Large Charge operators

Exact quantum conformal symmetry, its spontaneous breakdown, and gravitational Weyl anomaly

Anomaly-free scale symmetry and gravity

Twist Accumulation in Conformal Field Theory: A Rigorous Approach to the Lightcone Bootstrap

The Källén-Lehmann representation in de Sitter spacetime

QFT without infinities and hierarchy problem

Scale invariant Einstein-Cartan gravity and flat space conformal symmetry

Universality of loop corrected soft theorems in 4d

Bootstrapping traceless symmetric O(N) scalars

Benchmark exercise on image-based permeability determination of engineering textiles: Microscale predictions

Quantum Field Theory in AdS Space instead of Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmerman Axioms

Hilbert series, the Higgs mechanism, and HEFT