Publications

Papers

These are the publications which have given me an Erdős number of 5 so far. Send me an e-mail if you want to work together on one.

• M. A. Verdier; P. C. F. Di Stefano; P. Nadeau; C. Behan; M. Clavel; C. Dujardin. Scintillation properties of Bi₄Ge₃O₁₂ down to 3K under gamma rays. Physical Review B, 84, 214306, 2011.
• C. Behan. Density of states in a free CFT and finite volume corrections [arXiv:1210.5655]. Physical Review D, 88, 026015, 2013.
• C. Behan; K. Larjo; N. Lashkari; B. Swingle; M. Van Raamsdonk. Energy trapping from Hagedorn densities of states [arXiv:1304.7275]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10, 63, 2013.
• C. Behan. Conformal blocks for highly disparate scaling dimensions [arXiv:1402.5698]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 9, 5, 2014.
• C. Behan. PyCFTBoot: A flexible interface for the conformal bootstrap [arXiv:1602.02810]. Communications in Computational Physics, 22, 1, 2017.
• C. Behan; L. Rastelli; S. Rychkov; B. Zan. Long-range critical exponents near the short-range crossover [arXiv:1703.03430]. Physical Review Letteres, 118, 241601, 2017.
• C. Behan; L. Rastelli; S. Rychkov; B. Zan. A scaling theory for the long-range to short-range crossover and an infrared duality [arXiv:1703.05325]. Journal of Physics A, 50, 35, 2017.
• C. Behan. Conformal manifolds: ODEs from OPEs [arXiv:1709.03967]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 3, 127, 2018.
• C. Behan. Unitary subsector of generalized minimal models [arXiv:1712.06622]. Physical Review D, 97, 094020, 2018.
• C. Behan. Bootstrapping the long-range Ising model in three dimensions [arXiv:1810.07199]. Journal of Physics A, 52, 7, 2019.
• C. Behan; L. Di Pietro; E. Lauria; B. C. van Rees. Bootstrapping boundary-localized interactions [arXiv:2009.03336]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 12, 182, 2020.
• C. Behan; P. Ferrero; X. Zhou. More on holographic correlators: Twisted and dimensionally reduced structures [arXiv:2101.04114]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 4, 008, 2021.
• L. F. Alday; C. Behan; P. Ferrero; X. Zhou. Gluon scattering in AdS from CFT [arXiv:2103.15830]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 6, 020, 2021.
• C. Behan; L. Di Pietro; E. Lauria; B. C. van Rees. Bootstrapping boundary-localized interactions II: Minimal models at the boundary [arXiv:2111.04747]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 3, 146, 2022.
• C. Behan. Holographic S-fold theories at one loop [arXiv:2202.05261]. SciPost Physics, 12, 149, 2022.
• A. Antunes; C. Behan. Coupled minimal conformal field theory models revisited [arXiv:2211.16503]. Physical Review Letters 130, 071602, 2023.
• C. Behan; S. M. Chester; P. Ferrero. Gluon scattering in AdS at finite string coupling from localization [arXiv:2305.01016]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2, 042, 2024.
• C. Behan; E. Lauria; M. Nocchi; P. van Vliet. Analytic and numerical bootstrap for the long-range Ising model [arXiv:2311.02742]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 3, 136, 2024.
• C. Behan; S. M. Chester; P. Ferrero. Towards bootstrapping F-theory [arXiv:2403.17049]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10, 161, 2024.
• C. Behan; R. S. Pitombo. Mellin amplitudes for AdS₃ x S³ [arXiv:2408.17420]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 11, 059, 2024.
• A. Antunes; C. Behan. Coupled minimal models revisited II: Constraints from permutation symmetry [arXiv:2412.21107]. SciPost Physics, 18, 132, 2025.
• F. Aprile; C. Behan; R. S. Pitombo; M. Santagata. Simplicity of Mellin amplitudes for AdS₃ x S³ [arXiv:2504.19770]. Physical Review D, 112, L061902, 2025.
• C. Behan; D. Benedetti; F. Eustachon; E. Lauria. Long-range minimal models [arXiv:2509.26372]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 02, 001, 2026.
• C. Behan; L. Pipolo de Gioia. Two roads to fortuity in ABJM theory [arXiv:2512.23603]. Journal of High Energy Physics, 06, 217, 2026.

Talks

These are slides I used for the presentations that I would consider interesting. Some were given at conferences, others at more mundane venues.

• Solid-state cryogenic scintillators for particle detectors. Presented on 2010-10-22 at the 2010 Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• Wavefunction dynamics and application to the Bose glass phase. A talk on 2011-04-07 for my Bachelor's thesis. Also shown at the time were some videos of simulations.
• Problems related to finding universal Gröbner bases. A presentation given on 2011-04-09 for a computational commutative algebra course taught by Greg Smith.
• Physically meaningful or mathematically pedantic? A presentation given to grad students at UBC on 2013-11-29.
• Large parameter limits of conformal blocks. Presented on 2014-05-14 at Theory Canada 9 in Waterloo, Ontario with proceedings.
• Simplifying plasma balls and black holes with nonlinear diffusion (2014-07-14) and Black hole evaporation from a random walk (2013-05-15). Two talks related to my Master's thesis.
• Kaons et al: CP violation in the quark sector (2014-10-27) and Closing all loopholes in quantum devices (2015-02-25). Two presentations given to grad students at Stony Brook.
• Bootstrapping the long-range Ising model. Presented on 2018-02-03 at Nonperturbative and numerical approaches to quantum gravity, string theory and holography in Bangalore, India. There is also an updated version which I gave in three places later that year.
• Conformal invariance: What is it good for? as part of the GRAD TALKS series at Stony Brook on 2018-03-22.
• Better tools for crossing equations. A project proposal for the 2018-07-16 coding session of the Bootstrap 2018 workshop at Caltech.
• New tools for conformal manifolds in one and two dimensions. An interview talk given on 2018-11-23 for a postdoctoral position at ETH Zurich which I did not get.
• A very brief history of quantum field theory. A non-technical talk from 2019-05-21 that Stony Brook asks winners of the dean's award to give.
• Duality, non-renormalization, superblocks and lines of CFTs without supersymmetry. A submission to the gong show of TASI on 2019-06-19.
• Bootstrapping some continuous families of conformal field theories. The talk from my PhD defence on 2019-08-09.
• Protected operator algebras and holography. A seminar given twice virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Hidden structures of holographic correlators. A talk given on 2021-03-25 for an internal workshop called Oxford Meets the Hologram. See also an updated version.
• Unitarity vs positivity. Discussed on 2021-05-27 at Bootstat: Conformal bootstrap and statistical models in Orsay, France.
• Lifting the degeneracy between holographic CFTs. An Oxford string theory seminar given on 2022-02-21.
• How far can the Coulomb gas go? A tedious barrage of integrals which I unwisely tried to turn into a talk on 2022-10-10 at DESY, Hamburg.
• Coupled minimal models revisited. A beamer talk given at FPUK and the City in London on 2022-12-02. It was based on a blackboard talk given at Bootstrapping Nature in Florence on 2022-11-02.
• Localization improved gluon amplitudes in AdS. A Sikkim University and University of Crete seminar given virtually on 2023-06-09 and 2023-10-17 respectively.
• Fields all the way down. A big picture talk given to students at the University of the City of Sao Paulo (UNICID) on 2024-04-19.
• Conformal defects: A bridge between local and nonlocal physics. A status report given virtually at the Yau Center in Nanjing on 2024-10-11 and in person at IIT Gandhinagar on 2025-10-03.
• Making AdS₃ x S³ more like AdS₅ x S⁵. A Rencontres seminar given at the Henri Poincare Institute on 2025-01-16.
• Quantum mechanics in one space, general relativity in another. A big picture talk given at Acadia University on 2025-11-28.
• Fortuitous states for 4d black holes. A University of Crete seminar given virtually on 2026-05-12.
• Supercharge cohomology in holographic theories. A talk I gave for a mathematical physics session I co-organized at the annual meeting of the Canadian Mathematical Society in Saint John, New Brunswick on 2026-06-06.