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The modern conformal bootstrap program often employs the method of linear functionals to derive the numerical or analytical bounds on the CFT data. These functionals must have a crucial “swapping” property, allowing to swap infinite summation with the action of the functional in the conformal bootstrap sum rule. Swapping is easy to justify for the popular functionals involving finite sums of derivatives. However, it is far from obvious for “cut-touching” functionals, involving integration over regions where conformal block decomposition does not converge uniformly. Functionals of this type were recently considered by Mazáč in his work on analytic derivation of optimal bootstrap bounds. We derive general swapping criteria for the cut-touching functionals, and check in a few explicit examples that Mazáč’s functionals pass our criteria.
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Qiao, J., Rychkov, S. Cut-touching linear functionals in the conformal bootstrap. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 76 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2017)076
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