The Hybrid Bootstrap

Abstract

Finding a method to combine the numerical bootstrap with the analytic lightcone bootstrap is an important goal to advance the conformal bootstrap program. We propose a hybrid bootstrap method to do just that. The numerical and analytic bootstrap approaches are sensitive to different regions of the spectrum and complement each other. When they are effectively combined, the hybrid bootstrap enjoys the best of both worlds and the prediction for the actual CFT can be significantly improved. In this work, we discuss the general strategy to perform such a hybrid bootstrap, and we make a partial implementation of the strategy for 3D Ising CFT $\{\sigma,\epsilon\}$ system. Even at relatively low derivative order $\Lambda=19$, the hybrid bootstrap predicts very precise values for the scaling dimension $\Delta_\sigma,\Delta_\epsilon$ that are within the previous $\Lambda=43$ rigorous error bars.