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We consider the conformal bootstrap for spacetime dimension 1 < d < 2. We determine bounds on operator dimensions and compare our results with various theoretical and numerical models, in particular with resummed ϵ-expansion and Monte Carlo simulations of the Ising model on fractal lattices. The bounds clearly rule out that these models correspond to unitary conformal field theories. We also clarify the d → 1 limit of the conformal bootstrap, showing that bounds can be — and indeed are — discontinuous in this limit. This discontinuity implies that for small ϵ = d − 1 the expected critical exponents for the Ising model are disallowed, and in particular those of the d − 1 expansion. Altogether these results strongly suggest that the Ising model universality class cannot be described by a unitary CFT below d = 2. We argue this also from a bootstrap perspective, by showing that the 2 ≤ d < 4 Ising “kink” splits into two features which grow apart below d = 2.
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Golden, J., Paulos, M.F. No unitary bootstrap for the fractal Ising model. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 167 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)167
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