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We discuss conformal manifolds for conformal field theories with boundaries or defects. Using conformal perturbation theory we derive constraints on coefficients appearing in the boundary operator product expansion and three-point functions that need to be satisfied for the existence of marginal couplings. We present several explicit examples where we confirm that β-functions vanish using a position space regularization, differential regularization. Where possible, we confirm that our β-function results agree with the existing literature.
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Karch, A., Sato, Y. Conformal manifolds with boundaries or defects. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 156 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)156
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