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We study two-dimensional (4, 4) superconformal field theories of central charge c = 6, corresponding to nonlinear sigma models on K3 surfaces, using the superconformal bootstrap. This is made possible through a surprising relation between the BPS N\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ \mathcal{N} $$\end{document} = 4 superconformal blocks with c = 6 and bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks with c = 28, and an exact result on the moduli dependence of a certain integrated BPS 4-point function. Nontrivial bounds on the non-BPS spectrum in the K3 CFT are obtained as functions of the CFT moduli, that interpolate between the free orbifold points and singular CFT points. We observe directly from the CFT perspective the signature of a continuous spectrum above a gap at the singular moduli, and find numerically an upper bound on this gap that is saturated by the A1N\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ \mathcal{N} $$\end{document} = 4 cigar CFT. We also derive an analytic upper bound on the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on K3 in the large volume regime, that depends on the K3 moduli data. As two byproducts, we find an exact equivalence between a class of BPS N\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ \mathcal{N} $$\end{document} = 2 superconformal blocks and Virasoro conformal blocks in two dimensions, and an upper bound on the four-point functions of operators of sufficiently low scaling dimension in three and four dimensional CFTs.

In this paper, we analyze c = 6 (4, 4) superconformal field theories using the conformal bootstrap. Our primary example 1 is the supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model with the K3 surface as its target space. We refer to this theory as the K3 CFT. The conformal manifold and BPS spectrum of the K3 CFT has been well known [34][35][36][37][38][39]. Much less was known about the non-BPS spectrum of the theory, except at special solvable points in the moduli space [40][41][42], and in the vicinity of points where the CFT becomes singular [43][44][45].
To understand the non-BPS spectrum of the K3 CFT is the subject of this paper.
There are two essential technical ingredients that will enable us to bootstrap the K3 CFT. The first ingredient is an exact relation between the BPS N = 4 superconformal block at central charge c = 6 and the bosonic Virasoro conformal block at central charge c = 28 discussed in section 3. More precisely, we consider the sphere four-point block of the small N = 4 super-Virasoro algebra, with four external BPS operators of weight and spin (h, j) = ( 1 2 , 1 2 ) in the NS sector or (h, j) = ( 1 4 , 0) in the R sector, and a generic non-BPS intermediate primary of weight h. This N = 4 block will be equal to, up to a simple factor, the sphere four-point bosonic Virasoro conformal block of central charge 28, with external weights 1 and internal primary weight h + 1. This relation is observed by comparing the four-point function of normalizable BPS operators in the N = 4 A 1 cigar CFT to correlators in the bosonic Liouville theory, through the relation of Ribault and Teschner that expresses SL(2) WZW model correlators in terms of Liouville correlators [46,47].
We generalize the above argument to establish an exact equivalence between a class of BPS N = 2 superconformal blocks of c = 3(k + 2)/k with bosonic Virasoro conformal blocks of c = 13 + 6k + 6/k in section 4.
The second ingredient is the exact moduli dependence of certain integrated four-point functions A ijk of 1 2 -BPS operators (corresponding to marginal deformations) in the K3 CFT. They are obtained from the weak coupling limit of the non-perturbatively exact results on 4-and 6-derivative terms in the spacetime effective action of type IIB string theory compactified on the K3 surface [48,49]. This allows us to encode the moduli of the K3 CFT directly in terms of CFT data applicable in the bootstrap method, namely the four-point function.
The numerical bootstrap then proceeds by analyzing the crossing equation, where the N = 4 blocks, re-expressed in terms of Virasoro conformal blocks, are evaluated using Zamolodchikov's recurrence relations [8,50]. The reality condition on the OPE coefficients,

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which follows from unitarity, leads to two kinds of bounds on the scaling dimension of non-BPS operators, which we refer to as the gap dimension ∆ gap and a critical dimension ∆ crt . ∆ gap is the scaling dimension of the lowest non-BPS primary that appear in the OPE of a pair of 1 2 -BPS operators. ∆ crt is defined such that, roughly speaking, the OPE coefficients of (and contributions to the four-point function from) the non-BPS primaries at dimension ∆ > ∆ crt are bounded from above by those of the primaries of dimension ∆ ≤ ∆ crt . A consequence is that, when the four-point function diverges at special points on the conformal manifold, the CFT either develops a continuum that contains ∆ crt or some of its OPE coefficients diverge. In the case when the OPE coefficients are bounded (which is not always true as we will discuss in section 7.4), ∆ crt provides an upper bound on the gap below the continuum of the spectrum that is developed when the CFT becomes singular.
We will see that the numerical bounds on ∆ crt and ∆ gap are saturated by the free orbifold T 4 /Z 2 CFT, as well as the A 1 cigar CFT, and interpolate between the two as we move along the moduli space. The moduli dependence is encoded in the integrated fourpoint function of 1 2 -BPS operators A ijk , which has been determined as an exact function of the moduli. Our results provide direct evidence for the emergence of a continuum in the CFT spectrum, at the points on the conformal manifold where the K3 surface develops ADE singularities, using purely CFT methods (as opposed to the knowledge of the spacetime BPS spectrum of string theory [38,43,51]). Our bounds are also consistent with, but not saturated by, the OPE of twist fields in the free orbifold CFT.
We further discuss analytic and numerical bounds on ∆ crt in general CFTs in 2,3, and 4 dimensions. Using crossing equations, we derive a crude analytic bound ∆ crt ≤ √ 2∆ φ , where ∆ φ is the scaling dimension of the external scalar operator. This bound on ∆ crt is then refined numerically, and we observe that it meets at the unitarity bound for ∆ φ 1 in 3 dimensions and ∆ φ 2 in 4 dimensions, thus giving universal upper bounds on the four-point functions for this range of external operator dimension.
In the large volume limit of the K3 target space, the spectrum of the CFT is captured by the eigenvalues of the Laplacian on the K3. Using a positivity condition on the qexpansion of conformal blocks and four-point functions [52,53], we will derive an upper bound on the gap in the spectrum, or equivalently on the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on the K3, that depends on the moduli and remains nontrivial in the large volume limit. Namely, it scales with the volume V as V − 1 2 and thereby provides a bound on the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on the K3.
We summarize our results and discuss possible extensions of the current work in the concluding section. Various technical details are presented in the appendices. In appendix A, we fix the normalization of the integrated four-point function by comparing with known results at the free orbifold point. In appendix B, we review the q-expansion of the Virasoro conformal blocks and Zamolodchikov's recurrence relations. In appendix C, we explain the subtle technical details on how to incorporate the integrated four-point function A ijk into the bootstrap equations, and also derive a bound on the integrated four-point function by the four-point function evaluated at z = 1 2 . In appendix D, we discuss how the critical dimension ∆ crt gives an upper bound on the gap below the continuum when the integrated four-point function diverges at some points on the moduli space. Table 1. N = 4 superconformal primaries in BPS and non-BPS representations.

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2 Review of N = 4 superconformal representation theory The small N = 4 superconformal algebra (SCA) with central charge c = 6k , current algebra SU(2) R and outer-automorphism SU(2) out is generated by a energy-momentum tensor T , super-currents G αA transforming as (2,2) under SU(2) R × SU(2) out and the SU(2) R current J i . In terms of their Fourier components L n , G αA r and J i , the small N = 4 SCA is captured by the commutation relations {G αA r , G βB s } = 2 αβ AB L r+s + 2(r − s) AB σ αβ i J i r+s + k 2 (4r 2 − 1) αβ AB δ r+s , where (σ i ) α β are the Pauli matrices and (σ i ) αβ = (σ i ) α γ βγ with +− = +− = +1. Here we are focusing on the left-moving (holomorphic) part. The subscripts r, s take half-integer values for the NS sector and integer values for the R sector.
The N = 4 SCA enjoys an inner automorphism known as spectral flow, which acts as [54], J 3 n → J 3 n + ηk δ n,0 , J ± n → J ± n±2η L n → L n + 2ηJ 3 n + η 2 k δ n,0 , G ±A r → G ±A r∓η (2.2) where η ∈ Z/2. In particular, spectral flow with η ∈ Z + 1 2 connects the NS and R sectors. To obtain a unitary representation of the N = 4 SCA, k must be a positive integer. Furthermore, if the highest weight state (N = 4 superconformal primary) has weight h and SU(2) R spin ∈ Z/2, unitarity imposes the constraints h ≥ in the NS sector and h ≥ k 4 in the R sector. There are two classes of unitary representations of N = 4 SCA: the BPS (massless or short) representations and the non-BPS (massive or long) representations, which are summarized in table 1. In the full N = (4, 4) SCFT, operators which are BPS on both the left and right sides are called 1 2 -BPS; the operators which are BPS on one side and non-BPS on the other are 1 4 -BPS. We should emphasize that our terminology of BPS operators exclude the currents which will be lifted at generic moduli of the K3 CFT.

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The character for the BPS representation in the NS sector is , while the non-BPS NS sector character is where z and y are the fugacities for the third components of SU(2) R and SU(2) out , respectively. The Ramond sector characters are related to the above by spectral flow.
We will now specialize to the K3 CFT which admits a small N = 4 SCA containing left and right moving SU(2) R R-current at level k = 1. In this case, the 1 2 -BPS primaries in the (NS,NS) sector consist of the identity operator (h = =h =¯ = 0) and 20 others labelled by O ±± i with h = =h =¯ = 1 2 which correspond to the 20 (1, 1)-harmonic forms on K3 (i = 1, · · · , 20). In particular, the weight- where the (s, 1 2 ) BPS primaries are counted by the character 90q + 462q 2 + 1540q 3 + · · · . (2.6) We assume the absence of currents at generic moduli of the K3 CFT, which may be justified by conformal perturbation theory, so that the 1 4 BPS primaries are the only contributions to the non-BPS character terms in the elliptic genus (2.5). While the currents (of general spin) may appear at special points in the moduli space, they can be viewed as limits of non-BPS operators and therefore do not affect our bootstrap analysis.
We are interested in the four-point function of O ±± i (or φ RR i by spectral flow). Below we will make a general argument, based on N = 4 superconformal algebra at general 2 Note that the 1 4 -BPS primaries are fermionic with half integer spin, and are themselves projected out in the spectrum of the K3 SCFT. Rather, their integer spin (4, 4) SCA descendants comprise the true with SU(2) R spin 1 and 2 respectively can only contain superconformal primaries O ,m (and descendants of), with SU(2) R spin within the range | 1 − 2 |, | 1 − 2 | + 1, . . . , 1 + 2 − 1, 1 + 2 and m labels its J 3 R charge. 3,4 In particular, this will imply at k = 1 for K3 CFT, only (descendants of) the identity operator and non-BPS operators can appear. Consequently, only the identity block and non-BPS blocks contribute to the four-point function of 1 2 -BPS primaries O ±± i . We start with the 3-point function where W −m−m 1 −m 2 is an arbitrary word with J 3 0 = −m − m 1 − m 2 under left SU(2) R and composed of raising operators L −n , J i −n , G αA −r with n > 0, r > 1/2, and J + 0 , G −A −1/2 . We would like to argue by N = 4 superconformal invariance that such a correlator vanishes identically. The main idea is to perform contour deformation a number of times to strip off W −m−m 1 −m 2 completely while either leaving behind a G αA 1/2 which annihilates O j,m or just the correlator of the superconformal primaries themselves which vanish due to SU(2) R invariance.
Let us suppose does not belong to | 1 − 2 |, | 1 − 2 | + 1, . . . , 1 + 2 − 1, 1 + 2 . By inserting an appropriate number of J ± 0 at x 1 and x 2 in (2.7), and redistributing them by contour deformations, we can reduce the correlator (2.7) to (2.8) We can immediately strip off all Virasoro generators L −n in W 2 − 1 −m by deforming the contour of dz 2πi (z − x 3 ) 1−n T (z). This will relate the original three-point correlator to the derivatives of those without L −n . Similarly, we can deform the contour of , we can replace its insertion by and deforming the contour. Note that the second term in (2.9) has a vanishing contribution when we deform the contour to encircle either φ 1 , 1 , hence the original threepoint function with J + −n in W 2 − 1 −m is related to another with the operator replaced by J + −n+1 in W 2 − 1 −m . Repeating this procedure a number of times, we can be replace J + −n by J + 0 . 5 Similarly we can substitute J − −n by J − 0 . By commuting J i 0 all the way to right, we obtain a bunch of three point correlators of the form (2.8) with W 2 − 1 −m purely made of G αA −r . Consider for example the case when G +A −n−1/2 = dz 2πi G +A (z)(z − x 3 ) −n is the leftmost letter in W − . As before for J + −n , we can replace this insertion in the three-point function by G +A −n+1/2 for n ≥ 0 using (2.10) 3 We will focus on the holomorphic part in this argument. 4 Similar contour arguments have been used in [57,58] to argue that the three point functions of BPS primaries are covariantly constant over the moduli space. 5 Note that we do not have contributions when deforming the contour past infinity for n ≥ 0.

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Iterating this a number of times, we can replace G −A −n−1/2 by G −A 1/2 . 6 Now we can commute G −A 1/2 all the way to the right which will produce L −n and J i −m via anti-commutators and reduce the number of G αA −r 's in W 2 − 1 −m by two. Therefore we have reduced the correlator to that of the form (2.8) with W 2 − 1 −m being either G αA −r or removed completely. In the former case, we can perform the replacement (2.10) and contour deformation again and conclude the reduced three-point function vanishes. In the latter case, the resulting 3-point correlator also vanishes due to SU(2) R invariance. This completes the argument.

N = 4 superconformal blocks
For the purpose of bootstrapping the K3 CFT, we will need the sphere four-point superconformal block of the small N = 4 superconformal algebra of central charge c = 6, with the four external primaries being those of BPS representations with (h, j) = ( 1 2 , 1 2 ) in the NS sector, or equivalently by spectral flow, BPS representations with (h, j) = ( 1 4 , 0) in the R sector. The intermediate representation will be taken to be that of a non-BPS primary of weight h (and necessarily SU(2) R spin 0). Let us denote the NS BPS primary by O ± (exhibiting the left SU(2) R doublet index only), and the Ramond BPS primary by φ R . We shall denote the chiral-anti-chiral N = 4 superconformal block 7 associated with an NS sector BPS correlator of the form figure 1), and the corresponding block with R sector external primaries, associated with a correlator of the form . The NS and R sector blocks are related by Note that the j = 1 2 BPS representation does not appear in the superconformal block decomposition of the BPS four-point function in the K3 CFT, because neither the 1 2 -BPS nor the 1 4 -BPS operators appear in the OPE of a pair of 1 2 -BPS primaries, as demonstrated in the previous section. The identity representation superconformal block, on the other hand, can simply be obtained by taking the h → 0 limit of F N =4 h (z).
Claim. The chiral-anti-chiral c = 6 N = 4 superconformal block with BPS external primaries and internal non-BPS primary of weight h is identified with the bosonic Virasoro conformal block of central charge c = 28, with external primaries of weight 1, and shifted weight h + 1 for the internal primary, through the relation Here F Vir c (h 1 , h 2 , h 3 , h 4 ; h ; z) denotes the sphere four-point Virasoro conformal block with central charge c, external weights h i , and internal weight h . 8,9 JHEP05(2017)126 We will discuss an explicit check of (3.2) on the z-expansion coefficients of the conformal block in section 4.

N = 4 A k−1 cigar CFT
We will justify the above claim by inspecting the N = 4 A 1 cigar CFT, which can be described as a Z 2 orbifold of the N = 2 superconformal coset SL(2)/U(1) at level k = 2. 10 This is a special case of the N = 4 A k−1 cigar CFT, constructed as a Z k orbifold of the product of N = 2 coset SCFTs [43,62,63], 3) The N = 4 A k−1 cigar theory has 4(k − 1) normalizable weight ( 1 2 , 1 2 ) BPS primaries, corresponding to 4(k − 1) exactly marginal deformations, 11 and a continuum of delta function normalizable non-BPS primaries above the gap ∆ cont = 1 2k (3.4) in the scaling dimension. Later when we consider a sector of primaries with nonzero R-charges, the continuum develops above a gap of larger value and there may also be discrete, normalizable non-BPS primaries below the gap. The continuum states are in correspondence with those of the supersymmetric SU(2) k × R φ CFT, where R φ is a linear dilaton, with background charge 1/ √ k, which describes the asymptotic region of the cigar.

Four-point function and the Ribault-Teschner relation
Let us recall the computation of the sphere four-point function of the BPS primaries in the A k−1 cigar CFT, studied in [47]. The weight ( 1 4 , 1 4 ) 1 2 -BPS RR sector primaries lie in the twisted sectors of the Z k orbifold, labeled by an integer + 1, with = 0, 1, · · · , k − 2. Note that + 1 is also the charge with respect to a Z k symmetry that acts on the twisted sectors, and is conserved modulo k. They can be constructed from SL(2) and SU(2) coset primaries as either

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or Here V s ,(η,η) j,m,m (z,z) and V su,(η ,η ) j ,m ,m (z,z) are the spectral flowed primaries in the SL(2)/U(1) and SU(2)/U(1) coset CFTs, respectively. η,η and η ,η are the spectral flow parameters in the N = 2 SL(2)/U(1) and SU(2)/U(1). The holomorphic weight of the N = 2 SL(2) k /U(1) while the holomorphic weight of the N = 2 SU(2) k /U(1) coset primary V su,η j ,m (z) is where the operators are arranged so that the Z k charge is conserved. The SL(2)/U(1) part of the correlator was determined in [47], using Ribault and Teschner's relation [46] between the bosonic SL(2) WZW and Liouville correlators. The result is of the form (see (3.37) and (3.39) of [47]) 12 N |z| (3.10) Here F Vir (h 1 , · · · ; h P ; z) is the Virasoro conformal block with central charge c = 1 + 6Q 2 . N is a normalization constant. Q is the background charge of a corresponding bosonic Liouville theory, and α i are the exponents labeling Liouville primaries of weight h i = α i (Q − α i ). They are related to k (labeling the A k−1 cigar theory) and (labeling the BPS primaries) by (3.11) 12 Note that the identity block does not show up in the cigar CFT four-point function because the identity operator is non-normalizable. This can also be understood from the normalization when compared with the K3 CFT discussed in section 6.2.

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Note that the Liouville background charge Q is not the same as the background of the asymptotic linear dilaton in the original cigar CFT (which is 1/ √ k). The weight of the intermediate continuous state in the Liouville theory is is the structure constant of Liouville theory [8,64], , . (3.14) Here Γ 2 (x|a 1 , a 2 ) is the Barnes double Gamma function [65]. Υ(α) has zeroes at α = −nb − m/b and α = (n + 1)b + (m + 1)/b, for integer n, m ≥ 0. The integration contour in (3.10) is the standard one if α i lie on the line Q 2 +iR. We need to analytically continue α i to the real values given above. In doing so, the integral may pick up residues from poles in the Liouville structure constants. These residue contributions, if present, correspond to discrete intermediate state contributions [66]. We will have more to say about these discrete intermediate state contributions to the four-point function (3.10) in the N = 4 A k−1 cigar CFT in section 7.4.

Four-point function of the N = 4 A 1 cigar CFT
Now we shall specialize to the A 1 theory (i.e. k = 2). In this case, the asymptotic region of the cigar CFT is simply given by one bosonic linear dilaton R φ , with background charge 1 √ 2 , and 4 free fermions. Note that the non-BPS N = 4 character with c = 6 (and necessarily with SU(2) R spin j = 0) is identical to the oscillator partition function of one chiral boson and 4 free fermions. Thus, the non-BPS superconformal primaries of the N = 4 A 1 cigar CFT are in one-to-one correspondence with exponential operators in the bosonic part of the asymptotic linear dilaton CFT, of the form Importantly, these non-BPS primaries are labeled by the same quantum number, a real number P , as the intermediate Liouville primaries in (3.10). The result (3.10) that expresses the BPS four-point function in terms of Virasoro conformal blocks labeled by the Liouville primaries V α then strongly suggests that in the A 1 theory, the N = 4 superconformal block decomposition is identical to the decomposition (3.10) in terms of Virasoro conformal blocks. Here, the Virasoro block is that of central charge c = 1 + 6Q 2 = 28, (3.16)

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with external weights h i = 1 ((3.11) with k = 2, = 0). Next, we want to relate the intermediate Liouville primary with weight h P to the corresponding N = 4 non-BPS primaries in the A 1 cigar CFT. The non-BPS N = 4 primary, in the SL(2)/U(1) coset description, would be constructed from an SL(2) primary of spin 13 with conformal weight On the other hand, by the relation of Ribault and Teschner (see also (3.17) of [47]), the intermediate Liouville primary in (3.10) is labeled by the exponent α P given by Using (3.12), we obtain the weight of the intermediate Liouville primary in terms of P labeling the SL(2) k /U(1) coset states in (3.17), This leads us to identify the relation between the Virasoro primary weight h P and the weight of the non-BPS primary in the corresponding N = 4 superconformal block, Including the z-dependent prefactor in (3.10) in (the k = 2, = 0 case), and matching the normalization in the z → 0 limit, we then deduce the relation (3.2).

N = 2 superconformal blocks
The c = 6 N = 4 superconformal block with BPS external primaries is in fact identical to the chiral-anti-chiral channel superconformal block of the N = 2 subalgebra. 14 This follows from the fact that a non-BPS weight h representation of the N = 4 SCA decomposes into an infinite series of N = 2 non-BPS representations of weight h + m 2 2 and U(1) R charge m [67], with m = 0, 1, · · · . By a similar contour argument as in section 2, only the U(1) R neutral N = 2 primaries and their descendants can appear in the OPE of the external chiral operator φ + and anti-chiral operator φ − , 15 hence the claim. 13 The √ 2 is introduced to match with the convention in (3.10). 14 We thank Sarah Harrison for a discussion on this issue. 15 One can in fact reach a more general statement based on N = 2 SCA. The OPE of two (anti)chiral primaries with U(1)R charge q1 and q2 can only contain a primary (and descendants of) with U(1)R charge q3 if q1 ≤ 0 and q1 + q2 − q3 ≤ 0 or q1 ≥ 0 and q1 + q2 − q3 ≥ 0. In particular when we consider the OPE of one chiral and one antichiral primaries with opposite U(1)R charges, only the U(1)R neutral primaries (and descendants) can appear.

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and the internal U(1) R neutral non-BPS primary with weight h, is related to the bosonic Virasoro conformal block of central charge c = 13 + 6k + 6 k by where Note that in the special case when k = 2 and = 0, the N = 2 block becomes identical to the N = 4 block as argued above and (4.3) reduces to the claim (3.2). The shift in the intermediate weight h P = h + k+2 4 comes from the difference between Q 2 /4 and 1/4k, similar to (3.18) and (3.20) in the k = 2 case. We have checked directly using Mathematica that (4.3) (and therefore (3.2) as a special case) holds up to level 4 superconformal descendants with various values of q in (4.2). We expect (4.3) to hold for (anti)chiral primaries with general U(1) R charges and central charge c = 3(k + 2)/k by analytic continuation in and k.
The details of extracting the BPS N = 2 superconformal blocks of general central charge from the cigar CFT will be presented elsewhere. 16 Under spectral flow, the NS sector chiral primaries are mapped to R sector ground states with R-charges (4.1)

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In this section we discuss the integrated four-point function of 1 2 -BPS operators, whose exact moduli dependence will be later incorporated into the bootstrap equations (see section 7.3 and appendix C). The integrated sphere four-point functions A ijkl and B ij,kl are defined as [49] 17 by spectral flow, and the variables s, t, u are subject to the constraint s + t + u = 0. A ijkl by definition is symmetric in (ijkl). B ij,kl is symmetric in (ij), (kl), and under the exchange (ij) ↔ (kl). Furthermore, B ij,kl is subject to the constraint B ij,kl + B ik,lj + B il,jk = 0. A ijk is also known as the tree-level N = 4 topological string amplitude [68,69].
The first term in (5.1) is related to the tree-level amplitude of tensor multiplets in type IIB string theory compactified by K3 at two-derivative order. In particular, it captures the Riemannian curvature of the Zamolodchikov metric on the K3 CFT moduli space. Moreover A ijkl and B ij,kl can be identified as the tree level amplitudes of tensor multiplets in the 6d (2, 0) supergravity at 4-and 6-derivative orders respectively. They can be obtained from the weak coupling limit of the exact results for the 4-and 6-derivative order tensor effective couplings determined in [48,49]. In this paper, we will make use of where F is the fundamental domain of PSL(2, Z) acting on the upper half plane, Λ is the even unimodular lattice Γ 20,4 embedded in R 20,4 , which parameterizes the moduli of the K3 CFT, and the theta function Θ Λ is defined to be Here L and R are the projection of the lattice vector onto the positive subspace R 20 and negative subspace R 4 respectively. The lattice inner product is defined as • = 2 L − 2 R . y is an auxiliary vector in the R 20 , whose components are in correspondence with the 20 BPS multiplets of the K3 CFT. Note that in (5.2), the integral is modular invariant only after taking the y-derivatives and restricting to y = 0.
The expression (5.2) is obtained from the weak coupling limit of (1.3) in [49] (by decomposing Γ 21,5 = Γ 20,4 ⊕ Γ 1,1 , and taking a limit on the Γ 1,1 ). The normalization can be fixed by comparison with an explicit computation of twist field correlators in the T 4 /Z 2 JHEP05(2017)126 free orbifold CFT, as shown in appendix A. There is an analogous formula for B ij,kl as an integral of ratios of modular forms over the moduli space of a genus two Riemann surface.
If we assume that all non-BPS primaries have scaling dimension above a gap ∆, 18 one can derive an inequality between the integrated four-point function A 1111 of a single 1 2 -BPS primary φ 1 , and the four-point function f (z,z) itself evaluated at a given cross ratio, say z = 1 2 , of the form (see appendix C.1) Here A 0 and f 0 are constants, and M (∆) is a function of ∆ that goes like 1/∆ in the ∆ → 0 limit. Since A 1111 is known as an exact function of the moduli, this inequality will provide a lower bound on f ( 1 2 ) over the moduli space. In particular, it can be used to show that f ( 1 2 ) diverges in the singular CFT limits.

Special loci on the K3 CFT moduli space
Some loci on the moduli space of the K3 CFT are more familiar to us, such as near the free orbifold points 19 and where ADE singularities develop. This section reviews certain properties of the K3 CFT at these special points, that will allow us to check the consistency of our bootstrap results in section 7. In fact, some of the examples we discuss here will saturate the bounds from bootstrap analysis.
There is a locus on the K3 CFT moduli space that corresponds to the Z 2 free orbifold of a rectangular T 4 of radii (R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 ). Let us first consider the twisted sector ground state in the RR sector σ(z,z), associated with one of the Z 2 fixed points. Its OPE with itself will receive contributions from all states in the untwisted sector with even winding number [70], which has a gap of size 1/ max(R i ) 2 (here we adopt the convention α = 2). The four-point function of σ(z,z) is [71,72] Note again that the untwisted sector operators with odd winding numbers are absent in (6.1) due to the selection rule in the orbifold theory [70]. The map z → q(z) is due to Zamolodchikov [8,50] and is explained further in appendix B. The range of this q-map is shown in figure 3. 18 Note that the assumption of a nonzero gap holds in the singular CFT limits where the K3 develops ADE type singularities, but obviously fails in the large volume limit. 19 Free T 4 orbifold points on the moduli space of the K3 CFT fall in the following classes: T 4 /Z2, T 4 /Z3, T 4 /Z4 and T 4 /Z6. They share similar qualitative features and we will only discuss the T 4 /Z2 case in detail here. 20 Our convention for θ3(q) is θ3(q) = n∈Z q n 2 , with q = e iπτ . The four-point function evaluated at z = 1/2 has a particularly simple expression

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The minimal value is achieved by a square T 4 at radius R i = 1 (or R i = √ 2). Note that R i = 1 is not the self-dual point for the T 4 since we set α = 2. Later in section 7.2 and section 7.3, we will compare the twisted sector four-point function with our bootstrap bounds on the gap in the spectrum.
Next let us consider the four-point function of untwisted sector operators. The NS sector 1 2 -BPS operators in the untwisted sector can be built from the free fermions ψ αA (z), which satisfy the OPE From the bilinears of ψ αA we have either the SU(2) R current ψ αA ψ βB AB which is an N = 4 descendant of identity or the current ψ αA ψ βB αβ which is a weight (1, 0) non-BPS superconformal primary. Consider a single 1 2 -BPS operator in the untwisted sector of the free orbifold theory In the OPE between O ++ and O −− , the lowest non-identity primary is AB CD : ψ +A ψ +B ψ −C ψ −D : of weight (1,1). This will show up as a special example in section 7.2 and section 7.3 when we study the bootstrap constraint on the gap in the spectrum. Note that the integrated four-point function A 1111 at the free orbifold point T 4 /Z 2 is zero as can be checked explicitly from (5.1) and (C.1).

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More generally, we can consider two 1 2 -BPS operators φ ±± where M AB and M AB are some independent general 2 × 2 complex matrices. Below we will show that if the identity block is absent in the OPE of a 1 2 -BPS primary φ ±± i in the untwisted sector with itself, the (1, 0) non-BPS primary must appear in the OPE of φ ±± i with any other 1 2 -BPS primary φ ±± j in the untwisted sector if the identity block appears there. The OPE coefficient of the identity block in the φ 1 φ 1 OPE is proportional to det(M ), whereas that in the φ 1 φ 2 OPE is proportional to AB CD M AC M BD . Therefore, we require det(M ) = 0 but AB CD M ACMBD = 0 to exclude the identity in the φ 1 φ 1 OPE but not in the φ 1 φ 2 OPE. If the (1, 0) primary is absent in the φ 1 φ 2 channel, we require CD M ACMBD ∝ AB with a nonzero proportionality constant. This is in contradiction with det(M ) = 0.
In this case, the lowest primary in the φ i φ i OPE would be a (1, 1) non-BPS primary which combines the holomorphic (1, 0) primary with its antiholomorphic counterpart. In other words, if the φ i φ i channel does not contain identity whereas the φ i φ j channel contains identity, ∆ gap = 1 in the φ i φ j channel and ∆ gap = 2 in the φ i φ i channel. As we will see in subsection 7.4, if we take φ j to be the complex conjugate of φ i , this corresponds to a special kink on the boundary of the numerical bound for the φφφφ correlator.
We have already introduced the N = 4 A k−1 cigar CFT in section 3. Here we will focus on its continuous spectrum and divergent OPE coefficients.
We will consider the RR sector 1 2 -BPS primaries V + R, and V − R, ((3.5) and (3.6)) [49,73,74] with Z k charge ( + 1). Here ranges from 0 to k−2 2 . For between k−2 2 + 1 and k − 2 we use the identification Continuum in the cigar CFT. As already mentioned in (3.4), in the OPE between V + R, and V − R, , there is a continuum of delta function normalizable non-BPS primaries above Here we have adopted the notation that will be used in subsection 7.4 where we denote V + R, by φ and V − R, byφ. Let us move on to the lowest weight operator that lies at the bottom of the continuum in the OPE between V + R, and V + R, . This operator can be factorized into the SL(2) k /U(1) and SU(2) k /U(1) parts. Let us denote the lowest holomorphic weights of the operators in the two parts by h sl and h su , respectively.
h sl can be determined by studying the four-point function (3.10) together with the fusion rule in the N = 2 SU(2) k /U(1) coset. The leading z power in (3.10) is JHEP05 (2017)126 where we have used (3.11) and h P = α P (Q − α P ) with α P = Q/2 for the lowest dimension state in the continuum. Recall that Q = √ k + 1 √ k is the background charge of the corresponding bosonic Liouville theory in the Ribault-Teschner relation. Writing the four-point function (3.10) in the conformal block expansion, (6.7) is the power of z in the N = 4 superconformal block with intermediate state being the bottom state in the continuum and . The holomorphic weight of the latter is given by (3.7) to be 1 4k + 1 8 . Hence, , whose holomorphic weight is given by (3.8), Adding h sl and h su together, we obtain the lowest scaling dimension ∆ φφ cont in the continuum of the OPE channel between V + R, and V + R, , As we will show below, in addition to the continuum, there are generally discrete states contributing to the four-point function (3.10) of the cigar CFT with divergent structure constant when normalized properly.
Discrete Non-BPS primaries. As mentioned in section 3, the discrete state contributions come from the poles in the Liouville structure constants C(α 1 , α 2 , α P ) when we analytically continue the external states, labeled by their exponents α i , from Q 2 + iR to their actual values on the real line given in (3.11) [66]. The relevant factor in the Liouville structure constant is Υ(α 1 + α 2 − α P ) in the denominator of (3.13), 21 where Υ(x) has zeroes at k , the question of identifying the poles is equivalent to asking whether the interval The factor Υ(α1 + α2 + αP − Q) in (3.13) will give other discrete states with the same weights. The structure constant C(α3, α4, Q 2 − iP ) yields an identical analysis with replaced by k − 2 − , and hence gives the same set of poles.

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contains any of the poles in (6.11). It is not hard to see that the only possible poles in (6.11) that lie in the above interval are Note that k ≥ 4 for these poles to contribute. 22 These poles occur at 14) or, in other words, The imaginary shift of the momentum shifts the scaling dimension of the discrete non-BPS primary of question from the continuum gap by the amount of 2P 2 , to The lowest scaling dimension ∆ φφ discrete of such a discrete state (with divergent structure constant) is given by choosing n = 0, The normalization of structure constants. We now argue these discrete non-BPS operators, when viewed as a limit of those in the K3 CFT (that is described by the cigar CFT near a singularity), have divergent structure constants with the external 1 2 -BPS primaries. Let us first clarify the normalization of operators in the cigar CFT versus in the K3 CFT. In comparing the cigar CFT correlators to the K3 CFT correlators, there is a divergent normalization factor involving the length L of the cigar. That is, let V be some operator in the cigar CFT, then an n-point function V V · · · V in the cigar CFT of order 1 really scales like 1/L when viewed as part of the K3 CFT in the singular limit. In particular, the two-point function V V goes like 1/L, thus the normalized operator in the K3 CFT is φ ∼ √ LV , so that φφφφ goes like L, which diverges in the infinite L limit, for generic cross ratio.
The discrete non-BPS states discussed above contribute to the four-point function (3.10) by an amount that is a finite fraction of the continuum contribution, and both diverge in the singular cigar CFT limit. Consequently, these discrete states in the OPE of two 1 2 -BPS operators φ RR have divergent structure coefficients in this limit. 22 For k = 3 and = 0, the pole lies precisely at the new contour but the contribution to the fourpoint function is cancelled by poles from other factors in the Liouville structure constant. In any case, the potential discrete state lies at the bottom of the continuum and therefore does not affect the distinction between ∆ discrete with ∆cont.

Crossing equation for the BPS four-point function
Let us consider the four-point function is the sphere four-point conformal block of the Virasoro algebra of central charge c. Crossing symmetry relates the decomposition in the z → 0 channel to that in the z → 1 channel This is equivalent to the statement that for all possible linear functionals α [12]. In particular, we can pick our basis of linear functionals to consist of derivatives evaluated at the crossing symmetric point where for convenience we define Using the crossing equation, we will constrain the spectrum of intermediate primaries appearing in the φ RR φ RR OPE, by finding functionals that have certain positivity properties. In particular, we will be interested in bounding the gap in the non-BPS spectrum, as well as the lowest scaling dimension in the continuum of the spectrum in the singular K3 limits. If such a functional exists, then there must be a contribution to the four-point function from a primary with scaling dimension below ∆ gap that is not the identity. In other words, we obtain an upper bound on the gap in the spectrum, The search of positive functionals can be effectively implemented using semidefinite programming [15,17,75,76], and the optimal bound is obtained by minimizing ∆ gap . Over certain singular loci on the moduli space of the K3 CFT, for example, the N = 4 cigar CFT points, the four-point function at generic cross ratios diverge (away from the singular loci, the primary operators are always taken to be normalized by the two-point function). Since the four-point function is unbounded above on the moduli space of the K3 CFT, this motivates us to look for a more refined ∆ gap that depends on the four-point function. Let us first discuss how to improve ∆ gap using the four-point function evaluated at the crossing symmetric point f (1/2). In the next section, we will explore an alternative, which is to bound ∆ gap conditioned on the integrated four-point function A 1111 , whose dependence on the K3 CFT moduli is explicitly known (see section 5). In appendix C.2, we bound f (1/2) below by A 1111 .
The information of f (1/2) can be easily incorporated into semidefinite programming. is equivalent to the conformal block decomposition of f (1/2). An optimal ∆ gap can be obtained by scanning over functionals acting on H ∆,s (z,z), except that now the functionals are linear combinations of α m,n with m + n odd as well as m = n = 0.
A word on numerics. The results of semidefinite programing depend on a set of parameters. The conformal block is evaluated to q N order using Zamolodchikov's recurrence relations (see appendix B) [8,50], and we scan over functionals that are linear combinations of derivatives evaluated at the crossing symmetric point, up to d derivative orders, namely, α m,n for m + n ≤ d. Moreover, the positivity condition is in practice only imposed for spins lying in a finite range s ≤ s max (but for all scaling dimensions ∆ ≥ ∆ gap ). The truncation on spin is justified by the unitarity bound ∆ ≥ s and the convergence rate of the sum over intermediate states in the four-point function [77]. There are subtle interplays between these parameters. For example, if we go up to d derivative order, then we need N 23 Here and henceforth, the unitarity bound ∆ ≥ s is implicit. That is, positivity is enforced for ∆ > max(s, ∆gap).  to be larger than d; empirically we find that N = d + 10 gives a good approximation that is stable as N is further increased. Also, as d is increased, s max should also be increased, otherwise the bound may violate physical examples [78]. The default setting in this paper is N = 30, s max = 40, and up to d = 20, unless noted otherwise.

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Numerical results. The first two columns of table 2 show the numerical results for the optimal ∆ gap without the information of f (1/2), for up to d = 30 derivative orders. The conformal block is evaluated to q 40 order to accommodate the high derivative orders. Within numerical error, ∆ gap approaches 2 as we increase the derivative order. This bound is saturated by a free fermion correlator at the free orbifold point, as was explained in section 6.1.
After incorporating the information of f (1/2) (reverting to the default setting of parameters), we find that f (1/2) less than a certain threshold f (1/2) min is completely ruled out ( ∆ gap = 0). Above this threshold, ∆ gap starts from ∆ gap ≈ 2 at f (1/2) = f (1/2) min and then monotonically decreases. Table 2 shows the values of f (1/2) min , which seem to asymptote to f (1/2) min ≈ 3 at infinite derivative order. Figure 4 plots the dependence of ∆ gap on f (1/2). It is observed that the limiting value ∆ gap as f (1/2) → ∞ is approximately equal to another quantity ∆ crt ≈ 1/4 that we will introduce in the next section. Note that for smaller values of f (1/2), the numerical bound ∆ gap appears to converge exponentially with the derivative order d, while for larger values of f (1/2) the convergence is much slower and we extrapolate the bound to infinite d using a quadratic fit. There seems to be a crossover between the exponential convergence and power law convergence as f (1/2) increases. Since ∆ gap approaches ∆ crt in the large f (1/2) limit, a quadratic fit (rather than, for example, a linear fit) is justified in this limit as it works well for the latter (see table 3).  The value f (1/2) min ≈ 3 with ∆ gap ≈ 2 agrees with the four point function (6.4) of untwisted sector BPS primaries at the T 4 /Z 2 orbifold point where the numerical bound on the gap is saturated. Furthermore, it appears that the gap in the OPE of the twisted field σ(z,z) at the orbifold point lies close to, but does not quite saturate the numerical bound. It remains to be understood whether our numerical bound can be further improved or there exist other operators in the OPE of BPS primaries at other points on the moduli space that saturate the bound.

The gap in the non-BPS spectrum as a function of A 1111
A more desirable constraint to impose is the integrated four-point function A 1111 , since its dependence on the K3 CFT moduli is explicitly known (see section 5). Using crossing symmetry, A 1111 can be decomposed into a sum of conformal blocks integrated over the cross ratio in some finite domain. We then incorporate the equation into bootstrap, where the integrated blocks are are satisfied, then the gap in the non-BPS spectrum ∆ gap must be bounded above by ∆ gap . However, the region of integration D has to be carefully chosen so that the integrated blocks obey certain positivity properties at large weights, otherwise the bound cannot be improved below ∆ gap ≈ 2. More specifically, D should contain two fundamental domains of the S 3 crossing symmetry group, and have a maximal |q(z)| value on the real axis. See appendix C.1 for a detailed discussion and a specific choice of D, and figure 5 for an illustration. Figure 6 shows the dependence of the numerical bound ∆ gap on A 1111 ; the data points are bounds obtained at 20 derivative order, which we observe to already stabilize with incrementing the derivative order. We verified by testing that the bounds are not sensitive to the choice of D. 24 The results indicate that A 1111 must be non-negative. Above A 1111 ≈ 0, ∆ gap starts from ≈ 2 and monotonically decreases with A 1111 . The point A 1111 ≈ 0 and ∆ gap ≈ 2 is saturated by the integrated four-point function (6.4) of untwisted sector BPS 24 We found that for a given "good" choice of D (see appendix C.1 for restrictions on D), there is a minimum derivative order d * below which the bound is the same as that without the input of A1111, namely ∆gap ≈ 2. Above d * , the bound suddenly exhibits the nontrivial dependence on A1111 that is shown in figure 6. The choice of D given in appendix C.1 is made for simplicity, and has d * = 16; other choices may give smaller d * . However, the bound is not sensitive to the choice of D, as long as we look at derivative orders larger than the respective d * . primaries at the T 4 /Z 2 free orbifold point. In the limit A 1111 → ∞, ∆ gap approaches ∆ crt ≈ 1/4, a quantity we define in the next section. 25 Note that A 1111 is related to the tree-level H 4 coefficient in the 6d (2,0) supergravity effective action of IIB string theory compactified on K3. The consistency of string theory requires that this coefficient be nonnegative, because otherwise it leads to superluminal propagation [79]. Amusingly, here this non-negativity follows from unitarity constraints on the CFT correlator. Again, the gap in the OPE of the twisted field σ(z,z) at the orbifold point lies close to, but does not quite saturate the numerical bound.

Constraints on the OPE of two different 1 2 -BPS operators
By considering the four-point function φ RR φ RRφRRφRR of two different RR sector 1 2 -BPS primaries φ RR andφ RR , we will be able to detect the gap ∆ gap and ∆ crt in two different OPEs. The two RR primaries are chosen so that the identity block only appears in the φ RR ×φ RR OPE but not in φ RR × φ RR orφ RR ×φ RR . Taking φ RR andφ RR to be complex conjugates of each other, the two crossing equations are 26 (7.14) 25 Since A1111 is bounded above by f (1/2) assuming a finite gap (5.4), and we already observed that ∆gap → ∆crt ≈ 1/4 in the large f (1/2) limit, it follows that ∆gap → ∆crt ≈ 1/4 in the large A1111 limit as well. 26 This is not what is usually meant by "mixed correlator bootstrap", where the crossing equation for φφφφ , φφφφ , φφφφ are all considered at the same time as in [75].  Figure 7. The dots indicate upper bounds ( ∆ φφ gap , ∆ φφ gap ) on the gap in the respective OPEs, at derivative orders ranging from 8 to 20. We find that ∆ φφ gap is bounded above by 2, beyond which ∆ φφ gap = 0. The point (2, 1) is realized by an untwisted sector correlator at the T 4 /Z 2 free orbifold point. By symmetry, only odd derivative order functionals act nontrivially on G − ∆,s (z,z), and only even derivative order ones act nontrivially on G + ∆,s (z,z). To bound the gap in the two channels, we seek linear functionals α such that α · V φφ ∆,s > 0 for ∆ = s = 0 and ∆ > ∆ φφ gap , s ∈ Z, α · V φφ ∆,s > 0 for ∆ = s = 0 and ∆ > ∆ φφ gap , s ∈ 2Z,  Figure 7 shows the numerical results for the allowed region of (∆ φφ gap , ∆ φφ gap ). We find that both ∆ φφ gap and ∆ φφ gap are bounded above by ≈ 2, and the point with (∆ φφ gap , ∆ φφ gap ) ≈ (2, 1) is realized by the OPE of untwisted sector primaries at the T 4 /Z 2 free orbifold point.

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Over certain singular loci on the moduli space of the K3 CFT, the following two phenomena can occur: • The density of states diverges, leading to a continuum in the spectrum.
• The structure constants of some discrete states diverge.
At the singular loci, some components of the integrated four-point function A ijk diverge. The latter may occur in two different ways: (1) The four-point function remains finite at generic cross ratio z, with divergent contribution to A ijk localized at z = 0, 1, ∞ due to a vanishing gap in the spectrum. This occurs in the large volume limit. (2) The gap in the spectrum remains finite (i.e., away from the large volume limit), but the whole four-point function diverges at generic z. This is demonstrated in appendix C.2.
In higher dimensions, there exist absolute upper bounds on OPE coefficients coming from crossing symmetry and unitarity [80]. In the following subsections, we take a moment to study these bounds. Our discussion will motivate us to introduce a critical dimension ∆ crt , which is roughly the dimension above which OPE bounds exist. 27 Let ∆ crt be the lowest scaling dimension at which either a continuum develops or an OPE coefficient diverges. For example, at the N = 4 A 1 cigar CFT point, there is a continuum of states starting from ∆ crt = 1/4. We show in appendix D that in the notations of section 6.2. In the following, we describe how to use crossing symmetry to derive a numerical upper bound on ∆ crt that is universal across the moduli space.
We will see that ∆ crt > 0, so that it is possible to have unbounded contributions to the conformal block expansion from operators below ∆ crt .

A simple analytic bound on OPE coefficients and ∆ crt
We begin with a simple analytic bound on OPE coefficients. Consider a four-point function of scalars φ with dimension ∆ φ , in any number of spacetime dimensions d. For the moment, we set z =z = x. The four-point function can be written as a positive linear combination of "scaling blocks" Positivity of p ∆ is a consequence of unitarity. The expansion in scaling blocks ignores relations between primaries and descendants due to conformal symmetry. 27 These are relative bounds, namely, the OPE coefficients above ∆crt are bounded by the OPE coefficients below ∆crt, in contrast to the absolute bounds in [80]. We define ∆crt more rigorously in (8.17) below. 28 Here we adopt the convention, common in 2d, where (zz) −2∆ φ is included in the conformal blocks.

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Crossing symmetry implies where in the second line we separated out the contribution of the unit operator on the left hand side, and on the last line we divided by it. Evaluating (8.3) at x = 1 2 , we obtain In particular, suppose all operators have dimension ∆ ≥ 2∆ φ . (This happens, for example, in the 2d and 3d Ising models). Then we obtain an upper bound on the contribution of any individual scaling block When all ∆ are bounded away from 2∆ φ , there is also an upper bound on the contribution of multiple blocks, and also on the value of the four-point function itself at x = 1 2 , where ∆ min is the lowest dimension appearing in the conformal block expansion. As we show in section C.2, if the four-point function is bounded at x = 1 2 , it is bounded everywhere by a known function of z.
To obtain (8.5), we had to assume that only operators with dimension ∆ ≥ 2∆ φ appear in the four-point function. When operators lie below 2∆ φ , it may be possible to have unbounded contributions to the conformal block expansion. 29 Let ∆ crt be the dimension above which general bounds on OPE coefficients exist. We have shown ∆ crt ≤ 2∆ φ .

Improved analytic bounds on ∆ crt
There are two ways to obtain stronger bound on OPE coefficients and ∆ crt . Firstly, we can include more information about conformal symmetry by writing the four-point function as 29 A simple toy example using scaling blocks is where P can be arbitrarily large. This expression is crossing-symmetric and has a positive expansion in scaling blocks. Because there exists a scaling block with ∆ = 2∆ φ , namely the constant P , the four-point function can be arbitrarily large. (However, this example does not have a positive expansion in conformal blocks.) We thank Petr Kravchuk for this example.

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a positive sum over more sophisticated blocks. For example, in any spacetime dimension, we have is the radial coordinate of [77,81]. Evaluating the crossing equation at x = 1 2 then gives This implies that OPE bounds exist whenever ∆ ≥ √ 2∆ φ . In other words, 30 In two-dimensional theories, we can write the four-point function in terms of a positive expansion in q ∆ , where q is the elliptic nome [8,50,53]. This leads to stronger bounds on OPE coefficients and the result where c is the central charge. (This bound is worse than (8.11) when ∆ φ is small compared to c.) The best possible OPE bound comes from using the full conformal block expansioneither global blocks in d > 2 or the appropriate Virasoro blocks in 2d.

Numerical bounds on ∆ crt
The second way to improve these bounds is to consider more general linear functionals, other than simply evaluating the crossing equation at x = 1 2 . Consider the conformal block expansion f (z,z) = ∆,s p ∆,s F ∆,s (z,z). (8.13) Fix a dimension ∆ and search for a nonzero functional α with the property This is the same procedure as placing upper bounds on ∆ gap , with exception that we do not impose positivity for α acting on the unit operator F 0,0 . In fact, it is sometimes helpful to use the normalization condition The estimates 2∆ φ (coming from x blocks) and √ 2∆ φ (coming from ρ blocks) are the same as the reflection-symmetric points in the discussion of [82].

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Now suppose there exists α exists satisfying (8.14), (8.15), and suppose further also that only operators with dimension ∆ ≥ ∆ appear in the conformal block expansion. Then we find a general OPE bound We can now give a more rigorous definition of ∆ crt : ∆ crt ≡ the smallest ∆ such that there exists nonzero α satisfying (8.14). (8.17) If all operators in the conformal block expansion have dimension above ∆ crt , then their OPE coefficients obey universal bounds. By contrast, if some operators are above and some operators are below, then the contributions above are bounded in terms of the contributions below. See appendix D for a more detailed discussion.

∆ crt in 2, 3, and 4 spacetime dimensions
In higher dimensional theories, we will use a slightly modified definition of ∆ crt . The reason is that the stress-tensor always appears in the conformal block expansion, so it is nonsensical to impose that spin-2 operators must have dimension greater than d. The same is true in 2d theories when using global SL(2, R) × SL(2, R) conformal blocks. By contrast, Virasoro blocks include the contribution of the stress tensor, so the constraint (8.14) makes sense in that case. In higher dimensions (and for global blocks in 2d), we instead define The quantity ∆ scalar crt agrees with ∆ crt when ∆ crt ≤ d, and may differ when ∆ crt > d. We plot ∆ scalar crt in 2 dimensions (using global blocks), 3 dimensions, and 4 dimensions in figure 8. In all cases, the bounds are consistent with the analytic estimate ∆ crt ≤ √ 2∆ φ in the regime ∆ crt < d, where ∆ crt and ∆ scalar crt agree. Beyond this regime, ∆ scalar crt eventually jumps to a large value, and we have not explored its behavior.
Interestingly, in 3d and 4d, there are ranges of ∆ φ where ∆ crt coincides with the unitarity bound: roughly ∆ φ 1 in 3d and ∆ φ 2 in 4d. For ∆ φ in this range, there always exist universal bounds on OPE coefficients and the size of the four-point function, independent of any assumptions about which operators appear in the four-point function. Outside of these special cases, ∆ crt is nontrivial. 31

∆ crt for the K3 CFT
Now, let us finally return to the K3 CFT. Table 3 shows the numerical results for ∆ crt for several derivative orders, where we use the N = 4 conformal blocks appropriate to the JHEP05(2017)126 K3 CFT. Our results show rigorously that ∆ crt in the K3 CFT must lie below 0.29321, at every point on the moduli space. By extrapolating to infinite order, we find that ∆ crt is saturated, within numerical error, by the A 1 cigar whose continuum lies above ∆ crt = 1/4. As in section 7.4, we can consider a correlator φ RR φ RRφRRφRR for two different RRsector 1 2 -BPS operators that are complex conjugate of each other, and bound the divergent operator of the lowest scaling dimension in the φ RR ×φ RR and φ RR × φ RR channels. We fix ( ∆ φφ crt , ∆ φφ crt ), and search for nonzero functionals α that satisfy If such a functional exists, then (8.20) Figure 9 shows the allowed region of (∆ φφ crt , ∆ φφ crt ) obtained at various derivative orders. For any fixed ∆ φφ crt , the bound on ∆ φφ crt cannot be worse than the single correlator bound ∆ φφ crt 0. 25 Table 3. Upper bound ∆ crt on the divergent operator of the lowest scaling dimension, as the derivative order is increased, as well as the extrapolation to infinite order using a quadratic fit. Also shown is the value of ∆ crt for the A 1 cigar.
Single correlator bound Figure 9. The circle dots indicate upper bounds ( ∆ φφ crt , ∆ φφ crt ) on the divergent operator of the lowest scaling dimension in the respective OPEs, at derivative orders ranging from 8 to 20. At infinite order, the bound cannot be worse than the single correlator bound 0.25 indicated by the dashed line. We also find that ∆ φφ crt is bounded above by 2, beyond which ∆ φφ crt = 0. The square dots indicate the values for the A 1 ⊕ A 1 (at (1/4, 1/4)) and A k−1 (k ≥ 3) cigar theories.
A k−1 cigar CFT. Let us comment on where the A k−1 cigar CFTs analyzed in section 6.2 sit in figure 9. For the cigar CFT, we take φ RR andφ RR to be RR sector 1 2 -BPS primaries V + R, and V − R, ((3.5) and (3.6)). The continua of the A k−1 cigar CFT in φ RR × φ RR and φ RR ×φ RR start at ∆ φφ cont = (k − 2 − 1) 2 /2k and ∆ φφ cont = 1/2k, respectively (see (6.10) and (6.6)). For k ≥ 4, there are discrete state contributions to the four-point function in JHEP05(2017)126 the channel φ RR × φ RR starting at ∆ discrete = 2 − 4(1 + )/k. As argued in section 6.2, their OPE coefficients are divergent when compared with a generic K3 CFT. Since ∆ crt is defined as the lowest scaling dimension such that either a continuous spectrum appears or the structure constants of some states in the discrete spectrum diverge, we have 21) in the OPE channel between V + R, and V + R, in the A k−1 cigar CFT. On the other hand, in the OPE channel between V + R, and V − R, , ∆ φφ crt = ∆ φφ cont = 1/2k as in (6.6). We would like to emphasize that the presence of these R-charge non-singlet discrete states below the continuum is crucial for the consistency with the bootstrap bound derived from the crossing equations.
In figure 9, the point (1/4, 1/4) in the OPE of φφ and φφ can be realized at an A 1 ⊕ A 1 point on the moduli space, and the other black dots at A k−1 points with k ≥ 3 which asymptote to (2, 0) at large k. 32

The large volume limit
In this section we consider the gap in the OPE of 1 2 -BPS operators in the large volume regime of the K3 CFT. Based on unitarity constraints on the superconformal block decomposition of the BPS 4-point function (but without making direct use of the crossing equation), we will derive an upper bound on the gap, which remains nontrivial in the large volume regime, and leads to an interesting inequality that relates the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on the K3 to an integral constructed from a harmonic 2-form, and data of the lattice Γ 19,3 that parameterize the K3 moduli. The eigenvalues of the Laplacian on K3 can be studied using the explicit numerical metric in [84,85].

Parameterization of the K3 moduli
The quantum moduli space of the K3 CFT can be parameterized by the embedding of the lattice Γ 20,4 into R 20,4 , or equivalently, the choice of a positive 4-dimensional hyperplane in the span of Γ 20,4 . Let us write Γ 20,4 as Γ 1,1 ⊕ Γ 19,3 , with the Γ 19,3 identified with the cohomology lattice H 2 (K3, Z) [86]. Let u, v be a pair of null basis vectors of the Γ 1,1 , with Let Ω i (i = 1, 2, 3) be a triplet of H 2 (K3, R) classes associated with the hyperkähler structure of the K3 surface, normalized so that Ω i · Ω j = δ ij . We will denote by B the cohomology class of a flat B-field, and by V the volume of the K3 surface (more precisely it is (2π) 4 times the volume in units of α 2 ). An orthonormal basis of the 32 The minimal resolution of an ADE singularity of rank µ gives µ exceptional divisors which are dual to self-dual elements of H 1,1 (K3), thus µ ≤ 19. In particular, the K3 surface can develop an A k singularity only for k ≤ 19. However our bound on ∆crt is insensitive to the identity superconformal block contribution, and applies to noncompact theories as well, such as nonlinear sigma model on ALE spaces [83] and the N = 4 cigar CFTs.

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4-dimensional positive hyperplane is [86] Now an orthonormal basis of the 20-dimensional negative subspace can be constructed as where W α ∈ span(Γ 19,3 ) are a set of orthonormal vectors that are orthogonal to Ω i , and correspond to a basis of anti-self-dual harmonic 2-forms on the K3 surface. A general lattice vector of Γ 20,4 can be written as where α ∈ H 2 (K3, Z) Γ 19,3 . Let α + be the self-dual projection of α, or equivalently, 2V .

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We can now write the theta function Θ Γ 20,4 (τ,τ |y) = e π 2τ 2 y 2 n,m∈Z, α∈Γ 19,3 where y ∈ R 20 , and L · y ≡ 19 a=0 (− · e a )y a . In the large volume V limit, we can restrict to the sum to m = 0 term, and replace the summation over n by an integral. The integrated 4-point function of BPS operators (5.2) associated with deformations of Γ 19,3 (as opposed to the overall volume modulus, parameterizing the embedding of Γ 1,1 ) becomes ∂ 4 ∂y α ∂y β ∂y γ ∂y δ y=0 Θ 19,3 (τ,τ |y). (9.7) Note that this result does not apply to the integrated 4-point function of the BPS operator associated to the volume modulus, which in fact vanishes in the large volume limit.

Bounding the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on K3
Let us write the four-point function of a given 1 2 -BPS, weight ( 1 4 , 1 4 ) operator in the RR sector φ RR , which is related to a weight ( 1 2 , 1 2 ) NS-NS primary by spectral flow, as We have (9.9) f (z,z) admits a conformal block decomposition (in the z → 0 channel) of the form where according to our claim (3.2) and F Vir c (h 1 , h 2 , h 3 , h 4 ; h; z) is the sphere four-point conformal block of the Virasoro algebra of central charge c. We can write where the function g h (q) takes the form ∞ n=0 a n q n , a n ≥ 0. (9.13) Positivity of the a n follows from reflection positivity of the theory on the pillowcase [53].
In the large volume limit, A is dominated by the contribution from light non-BPS operators in the OPE, integrated near z = 0, 1 or ∞. Let us assume that there is a gap ∆ 0 in the spectrum of non-BPS (scalar) primaries. We can write in this limit In the first approximation, we have dropped finite contributions that are unimportant in the large volume limit, where A diverges like V 1 2 , while ∆ 0 goes to zero like V − 1 2 . Here Λ

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is a cutoff on the operator dimension that can be made small but finite, and δ(≤ z * ) is a small positive number. Taking Λ to zero after taking the large volume limit, we derive the bound (which holds only in the large volume limit) One might be attempted to take z * to be small, but f (z * ) diverges in the small z * limit.
In practice, we can simply choose z * = 1 2 , and arrive at the large volume bound where q 1 2 ≡ q(z = 1 2 ) = e −π . Note that for generic Einstein metric on the K3, the four-point function f ( 1 2 ) remains finite in the infinite volume limit. In this limit, we can identify ∆ 0 = λ 1 /2, where λ 1 is the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on the K3 surface, in units of α . 33 Let ω = ω ij dz i dzj be a harmonic (1, 1)-form that is orthogonal to the Kähler form, normalized such that V −1

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√ gω ij ω ij = 1. Let O ±± ω be the BPS primary associated with the corresponding moduli deformation. We have for instance O ++ ω ≈ ω ij ψ i ψj, O −− ω ≈ ω ij ψj ψ i in the large volume limit. The 4-point function of the corresponding φ RR ω evaluated at where ω 2 ≡ ω ij ω ij , ω 4 = ω ij ω kj ω k¯ ω i¯ . Thus, we derive the following upper bound on λ 1 , 2. We derived a lower bound on the four-point function of a 1 2 -BPS primary by the integrated four-point function A 1111 , assuming the existence of a gap in the spectrum. We also determined A ijkl as an exact function of the K3 CFT moduli (parameterized by the embedding of the lattice Γ 20,4 ).

We found an upper bound on the lowest dimension non-BPS primary appearing
in the OPE of two identical 1 2 -BPS primaries, as a function of the BPS four-point function evaluated at the cross ratio z = 1 2 , and as a function of A 1111 (thus a known function on the moduli space of the K3 CFT). Both vary monotonously from 2 to 1 4 , and interpolate between the untwisted sector of the free orbifold CFT and the A 1 cigar CFT. It is also observed that A 1111 must be non-negative from the bootstrap constraints (see figure 6), which is consistent with the superluminal bound on the H 4 coefficient in the 6d (2,0) supergravity coming from IIB string theory compactified on K3.

Bounding the contribution to the BPS four-point function by contributions from
non-BPS primaries of scaling dimension below ∆ crt , and assuming the boundedness of the OPE coefficients, we deduce that a continuum in the spectrum develops near the ADE singular points on the K3 CFT moduli space, and find numerically that ∆ crt agrees with the gap below the continuum in the A 1 cigar CFT, namely 1 4 .

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We explored the possibility of the appearance of either a continuum or divergent contribution from discrete non-BPS operators in the OPE of two distinct 1 2 -BPS operators, near a singular point of the moduli space where the BPS four-point function diverges (beyond the A 1 case). The bootstrap bounds we found are consistent with the spectrum and OPE of the N = 4 A k−1 cigar theory, and know about the appearance of discrete non-BPS primaries in the OPE below the continuum gap.
6. For general CFTs in 2,3,4 spacetime dimensions, we derived a crude analytic bound ∆ crt ≤ √ 2∆ φ , where ∆ φ is the scaling dimension of the external scalar operator. It was observed (see figure 8) from the stronger numerical bounds on ∆ crt that they meet at the unitarity bounds for ∆ φ 1 in 3 spacetime dimensions and ∆ φ 2 in 4 spacetime dimensions, thus providing universal upper bounds on the four-point functions for this range of external operator dimension.

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7. Independently of the crossing equation, but using nonetheless unitarity and exact results of the integrated BPS four-point function, we derived in the large volume regime a bound that is meaningful in classical geometry, namely an upper bound on the first nonzero eigenvalue of the scalar Laplacian on K3 surface, that depends on the moduli of Einstein metrics on K3 (parameterized by the embedding of the lattice Γ 19,3 ) and an integral constructed out of a harmonic 2-form on the K3.
While we have exhibited some of the powers of the crossing equation based on the full N = 4 superconformal algebra, clearly much more can be said regarding the non-BPS spectrum and OPEs in the K3 CFT over the entire moduli space. We would like to understand to what extent our bootstrap bounds can be saturated, away from free orbifold and cigar points in the moduli space. In particular, it would be interesting to compare with results from conformal perturbation theory.
Apart from a few basic vanishing results, the OPEs of the 1 4 -BPS primaries remain largely unexplored. Neither have we investigated the torus correlation functions, which should provide further constraints on the non-BPS spectrum. Note that there are certain integrated torus four-point functions, analogous to A ijkl and B ij,kl , that can be determined as exact functions of the moduli, by expanding the result of [49] perturbatively in the type IIB string coupling.
There are a number of important generalizations of our bootstrap analysis that will be left to future work. One of them is to derive bootstrap bounds on the non-BPS spectrum of (2, 2) superconformal theories, with input from the known chiral ring relations. To do so, we will need to extend the results of section 4 to ones that express a more general set of BPS N = 2 superconformal blocks in terms of Virasoro conformal blocks (of a different central charge and shifted weights). These relations can be extracted from BPS correlators of the N = 2 SL(2) k /U(1) cigar CFT (or the T-dual N = 2 Liouville theory [89]), and will be presented in detail elsewhere.
Another generalization would be to extend our analysis to (4,4) superconformal theories of higher central charge, namely c = 6k for k ≥ 2, and use it to understand the appearance of a continuous spectrum in the D1-D5 CFT at various singular points on its moduli space. There is conceivably a generalization of our relation between the c = 6 N = 4 block and bosonic Virasoro blocks, to the k ≥ 2 case. This is currently under investigation.
Finally, our numerical bounds on ∆ crt seem to allow for the possibility of having an arbitrarily large four-point function when ∆ φ 1 in 3 spacetime dimensions and ∆ φ 2 in A The integrated four-point function A ijkl at the T 4 /Z 2 CFT orbifold point In this appendix we compare the proposed exact formula for the integrated four-point function A ijkl to explicit computation of the four-point function of twist fields in the T 4 /Z 2 free orbifold CFT. The twist fields of the latter are associated with the 16 Z 2 fixed points on the T 4 . We will focus on the case where i, j, k, l label the same Z 2 fixed point (denote by i = j = k = l = 1). The result as given in [72] is Here τ is related to the cross ratio z by the mapping τ = iF (1−z)/F (z), F = 2 F 1 ( 1 2 , 1 2 ; 1; z). Γ 4,4 is the Narain lattice associated with the T 4 with all radii rescaled by √ 2. The factor 6 comes from the integration over the fundamental domain of Γ(2), which consists of 6 copies of the PSL(2, Z) fundamental domain F . Note that the = 0 term in the lattice sum leads to a divergent integral, which is regularized by analytic continuation in the Mandelstam variables s, t, u and then dropping the polar terms in the s, t, u → 0 limit as before.

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Note that A i · A j = 1 + δ ij . Let Γ 16 be the root plus chiral spinor weight lattice of SO(32) embedded in the R 16 , generated by the root vectors (0, · · · , 0, 1, −1, 0, · · · , 0), and (± 1 2 , · · · , ± 1 2 ) with even number of minuses. Now Γ 20,4 can be constructed as the span of the following generators One can verify that this lattice is indeed even and unimodular. 34 In the large R i limit, we can approximate the theta function of Γ 20,4 as Note that theτ -dependence of θ Γ 16 is entirely through the factor e π 2τ 2 y 2 . We can then evaluate the integral Here d 2 τ ≡ 2dτ 1 dτ 2 . In the last line, the holomorphic function θ Γ 16 (y|τ ) is θ Γ 16 with the e π 2τ 2 y 2 factor dropped, due to the τ 2 → ∞ limit taken in going to the boundary of F . Furthermore, only the y 4 term is kept in the Laurent expansion in y, and in particular the constant term 1 in the lattice sum in θ Γ 16 does not contribute. The only contribution comes from the terms of order q in θ Γ 16 (y|τ ), giving In particular, The factor 60 comes from the sum of (E a ·ê 1 ) 6 for all root vectors E a of so (32), witĥ e 1 = (1, 0, · · · , 0). 34 This lattice can also be used to describe the compactification of SO(32) heterotic string on a rectangular

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Note that in the large radii limit, the four-point function of twist fields at a given cross ratio in the free orbifold CFT diverges like the volume, as is A ijkl . 35 Comparison with (A.1) then fixes the overall normalization of A ijk as a function of moduli to be that of (5.2).

B Conformal blocks under the q-map
The four-punctured sphere can be uniformized by a map T 2 /Z 2 → S 2 [8,50,53]. The complex moduli τ of the T 2 is related to the cross ratio z of the four punctures by a map Because τ lies in the upper half plane, the "nome" defined as has the property that its value lies inside the unit disk. We shall simply refer to this map z → q(z) as the q-map. The q-map has a branch cut at (1, ∞); the value of q(z) covered by one branch is shown in figure B.2, and crossing to other branches brings us outside this eye-shaped region. Also shown are the regions D 1 , D 2 , D 3 defined by  then H(λ 2 i , h|q) satisfies Zamolodchikov's recurrence relation [8,50] where h m,n are the conformal weights of degenerate representations of the Virasoro algebra, and R m,n ({λ i }) are given by

C More on the integrated four-point function A ijk
The purpose of this appendix is the explain how knowing the value of the integrated fourpoint function A ijk can improve the bootstrap bounds on the spectrum. We first explain the problem with naively incorporating A ijk into semidefinite programming, and then discuss two solutions. The first way is to cleverly use crossing symmetry to choose an appropriate region over which to integrate the conformal blocks. The second way is to use A 1111 indirectly by bounding it above by the four-point function evaluated at the crossing symmetric point, f (1/2), and incorporate f (1/2) into semidefinite programming instead.

C.1 Conformal block expansion
We can write the integrated four-point function A ijk as In expressing the four-point function of the 1 2 -BPS operators in terms of conformal blocks, we would like the divergence in the z-integral to appear in the identity conformal block alone, so that the regularization can be performed on the identity block contribution alone. This can be achieved by dividing the integral over the z-plane into the contributions from three regions D 1 , D 2 and D 3 defined in (B.3). Note that regions D 2 and D 3 can be mapped from D 1 by z → 1/z and z → 1/(1 − z), respectively. We have where the constant C 0 is given by

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Now the integral in the domain D 1 can be performed term by term in the summation over superconformal blocks. Define the constant A 0 and the function A(h L , h R ) by

(C.4)
A 0 can also be obtained as a limit of A(∆, 0) by We can now write are satisfied, then the gap in the non-BPS spectrum ∆ gap must be bounded above by ∆ gap , in order to be consistent with the positivity of C 2 11O . Despite the additional freedom of a, this naive incorporation of A 1111 does not improve the bound, for the following reasons. As explained at the end of appendix B, the holomorphic superconformal block F R h (z) asymptotes to (16q(z)) h at large h. This means that for any spin s, the integrated block A(∆, s) at large ∆ is dominated by the integration near the maximal value of |q(z)| in the domain D 1 , which is at (see figure 3), and therefore has the asymptotic behavior
One may wonder if we can choose a different region (that also consists of two fundamental domains of the S 3 crossing group) to integrate in, so that the leading large ∆ behavior of the integrated block is (16e −π ) ∆ , same as α m,n (H ∆,s (z,z)). This is not possible, because z ± * = 1 2 ± √ 3 2 i at most exchange with each other under crossing. However, we can integrate over a larger region D whose maximum |q| value is on the real axis (to avoid the sign oscillation), and map the extra region D \ D 1 that needs to be subtracted off via crossing to a region E inside D 1 . We thus have an equation for A 1111 related to the naive conformal block expansion by the replacement of D 1 → D \ E as the integration region.
We are free to choose D , but in the end the bootstrap bound should not be sensitive to the choice. Let D be symmetric under q → −q and q →q, so that it suffices to specify D in the first quadrant in the q-plane, or equivalently within the strip 0 ≤ Re τ ≤ 1 2 in the τ -plane (recall q(z) = e iπτ (z) ). In this strip, the region D 1 is bounded below by |τ | = 1. A choice of D is the region bounded below by the lower arc of |τ − 2 . The corresponding region E is then the part of D 1 that satisfies |τ + 1| ≤ √ 3. See figure 5. To perform semidefinite programming efficiently, it is desirable to factor out certain positive factors, including the exponential dependence on ∆, and just work with polynomials. Our strategy is to factor out (16e −π ) ∆ , and approximate (16e π ) ∆ A(∆, s) by a rational function in ∆, that works well up to a value beyond which A(∆, s) is completely dominated by the asymptotic (16q max ) ∆ factor. We further demand a > 0, and that the rational approximation be strictly bounded above by the actual value, so that the bound can only be stronger as we improve the rational approximation to work well in a larger range of ∆.
C.2 An inequality relating A 1111 to the four-point function at z = 1 2 An alternative is to use A 1111 indirectly by bounding A 1111 above by the four-point function evaluated at the crossing symmetric point f (1/2). The conformal block evaluated at z = 1 2 has the same large ∆ asymptotics (16e −π ) ∆ as α m,n (H 0 (z,z)), and the sign does not oscillate with s. The incorporation of f (1/2) into bootstrap and the results are discussed in detail in section 7.2. This section is devoted to proving the inequality between A 1111 and f (1/2). We can write the N = 4 superconformal block decomposition of the BPS four-point function f (z,z) in the form (see (7.8) of [53]) with Λ(z) ≡ (z(1 − z)) − 1 3 θ 3 (q) −2 . The functions g h (q) take the form g h (q) = q h− 1 6 n≥0 a n q n , (C. 13) where, importantly, the coefficients a n are non-negative.

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For a general complex cross ratio z, let x be the real value between 0 and 1 such that q(x) = |q(z)|. Define r = min{x, 1 − x}, and q r = q(r). Note that by crossing relation, f (x) = f (x 0 ). We can then bound the four-point function at a generic cross ratio by (C.14) We now make the assumption that the non-BPS operators have scaling dimensions above a nonzero gap ∆. As before, we can write the integrated four-point function A 1111 as 3 times the contribution from an integral over the domain D 1 = z ∈ C : |z| < 1, Re z < 1 2 , while regularizing the integral of the identity block contribution, in the form Here z * = 1+ √ 3i 2 is the value of the cross ratio z over the domain D that achieves the maximal value of |q(z)|, x * ≈ 0.653326 is such that q(x * ) = |q(z * )|, r * = 1 − x * , and q r ≈ 0.0265799. On the r.h.s. of the inequality, f 0 is a constant defined by Recall that ∆ crt defined in section 8 is the lowest scaling dimension at which either a continuous spectrum develops or the structure constant diverges, as the CFT is deformed to a singular point in its moduli space. In this appendix we will describe how to use crossing symmetry to bootstrap an upper bound on ∆ crt that is universal across the moduli space. In

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particular we will show that if the integrated four-point function A 1111 diverges somewhere on the moduli space, then ∆ crt ≥ ∆ crt with ∆ crt defined in section 8. Consider the four-point function of the RR sector 1 2 -BPS primaries φ RR i of weight ( 1 4 , 1 4 ) that are R-symmetry singlets (i = 1, · · · , 20). Let us consider in particular the four-point function of the same operator, say, φ RR 1 , where we did not write out the sum over the spin explicitly but it will not affect the argument significantly. The conformal block has the following asymptotic growth for large ∆. The crossing equation takes the following expression, We will consider functionals L acting G ∆ (z,z) with the following properties, for some ∆ crt . Note that ∆ crt depends on the choice of the functional L. The significance of ∆ crt is that it implies the structure constants above ∆ crt are bounded by those below, Assuming that the integrated four-point function A 1111 diverges at some points on the moduli space, we will show that for any choice of the functional L, we always have ∆ crt ≥ ∆ crt .
(D. 6) In this way we can bootstrap an upper bound on ∆ crt by scanning through a large class of functionals L.
To prove our goal (D.6), we assume that there exists a functional L such that the associated ∆ crt < ∆ crt , and show that it leads to contradiction. By assumption the density of the spectrum is bounded and the structure constants are finite for ∆ < ∆ crt (< ∆ crt ), hence the r.h.s. of (D.5) is finite,  In the following we will try to bound the integrated four-point function roughly by ∆> ∆crt C 2 ∆ L(∆), which is finite by assumption, plus some other finite contributions. On the other hand, we know A 1111 diverges, for example, at the cigar CFT points, and hence the contradiction.
Let us now fill in the details of the proof. As discussed in appendix C, in the expression for A 1111 , we break the integral on the z-plane into three different regions D 1 , D 2 , D 3 (B.3) that are mapped to each other under z → 1 − z and z → 1/z. Since the four-point function is crossing symmetric, we can focus on region D 1 alone. This has the advantage that the divergence in the z-integral only shows up in the identity block. We will cut a small disk around z = 0 with radius 0 and regularize the contribution from the identity block.
We start by noting a bound on the conformal blocks. The functionals L we consider are linear combination of powers of ∂ z , ∂z evaluated at z = 1/2. Therefore the asymptotic behavior of L(∆) is the same as that of the conformal block F ∆ (z,z) evaluated at z = 1/2, where q 1 2 ≡ q(z = 1/2). This implies that there exists a moduli-independent constant c 0 and δ 0 such that |F ∆ (z,z)| ≤ c 0 L(∆), for ∆ ≥ ∆ crt + δ 0 , (D. 10) if |q(z)| < |q 1 2 |. We can always tune δ 0 to be arbitrarily small by taking c 0 to be large.
Note however that strictly at ∆ = ∆ crt , we have L( ∆ crt ) = 0. For z in region I and |q(z)| < |q 1 2 |, from (D.10) we have In particular it is true for 0 < z < 1/2. Next we want to argue that (D.11) is true for z in the whole region I. First we note that we can write the four-point function as an expansion in z,z with non-negative coefficients [52,53]. By the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, we have |f (z,z)| ≤ f (|z|, |z|). (D.12) Note that |z| ∈ [ 1 2 , 1] for z in region I but |q(z)| > |q 1 2 |. Next, by crossing symmetry, we have f (|z|, |z|) = f (1 − |z|, 1 − |z|). We therefore arrive at the following bound

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For integration inside the disk, we have to regularize the contribution from the identity block, where we have assumed there is a gap in the spectrum. c 2 is a moduli-independent constant coming from the regularized identity block contribution. Let us inspect every term in (D.14) and (D.15). First we tune δ 0 such that ∆ crt + δ 0 is below ∆ crt , possibly at the price of having larger c 0 . After doing so, terms involving sums over ∆ below ∆ crt + δ 0 are finite by our assumption that the density of the spectrum is bounded and the structure constants are finite for this range of ∆. On the other hand, for terms involving sum of ∆ above ∆ crt + δ 0 , they are both of the form ∆> ∆crt+δ 0 C 2 ∆ L(∆), (D. 16) which is bounded from above by the l.h.s. of (D.7). Hence the l.h.s. of (D.14) and (D.15) are both bounded. It follows that A 1111 < ∞ under the assumption that ∆ crt < ∆ crt , which is a contradiction, say, at the cigar point. Thus we have proved our goal (D.6).