EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D ≥ 3 Dimensions by Slava Rychkov

By Slava Rychkov

This primer develops Conformal box concept (CFT) from scratch, wherein CFT is seen as any conformally-invariant conception that describes a set aspect of a renormalization crew movement in quantum box theory.

The e-book is split into 4 lectures: Lecture 1 addresses the actual foundations of conformal invariance, whereas Lecture 2 examines the limitations imposed by way of conformal symmetry at the correlation services of neighborhood operators, awarded utilizing the so-called projective null cone – a strategy sometimes called the embedding formalism. In flip, Lecture three specializes in the radial quantization and the operator product growth, whereas Lecture four bargains a truly short advent to the conformal bootstrap.

Derived from course-based notes, those lectures are meant as a primary aspect of access to this subject for grasp and PhD scholars alike.

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