# A semidefinite program solver for the conformal bootstrap

@article{SimmonsDuffin2015ASP,
title={A semidefinite program solver for the conformal bootstrap},
author={David Simmons-Duffin},
journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
year={2015},
volume={2015},
pages={1-31}
}
A bstractWe introduce SDPB: an open-source, parallelized, arbitrary-precision semidefinite program solver, designed for the conformal bootstrap. SDPB significantly outperforms less specialized solvers and should enable many new computations. As an example application, we compute a new rigorous high-precision bound on operator dimensions in the 3d Ising CFT, Δσ = 0.518151(6), Δϵ = 1.41264(6).
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