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"Thermal conformal blocks" by Yan Gobeil, Alexander Maloney, Gim Seng Ng and Jie-qiang Wu has received the Select label. Warm congratulations to the authors!

This innovative article explores a foundational problem of determining the conformal blocks for a conformal field theory (CFT) at finite temperatures. They solve this issue for the specific case of one-point thermal correlators. The combination of field theoretic and holographic techniques gives confidence in the veracity of the result, and suggests how one might extend their result to other related blocks. This topic has not been explored in detail before, and therefore this article establishes the groundwork for future research.