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Epfl Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D >= 3 Dimensions

Epfl Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D >= 3 Dimensions

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Physics

General MathematicsPhysics

ISBN10: 3319436252
ISBN13: 9783319436258
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 11 2016
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This primer develops Conformal Field Theory (CFT) from scratch, whereby CFT is viewed as any conformally-invariant theory that describes a fixed point of a renormalization group flow in quantum field theory.

The book is divided into four lectures: Lecture 1 addresses the physical foundations of conformal invariance, while Lecture 2 examines the constraints imposed by conformal symmetry on the correlation functions of local operators, presented using the so-called projective null cone - a procedure also known as the embedding formalism. In turn, Lecture 3 focuses on the radial quantization and the operator product expansion, while Lecture 4 offers a very brief introduction to the conformal bootstrap.

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