Conformal Bootstrap: Techniques for Studying Conformal Field Theory - Lecture 1
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Overview
Syllabus
Kavli Asian Winter School KAWS on Strings, Particles and Cosmology 2018
Conformal Bootstrap Lecture - 01
Technique to study conformal field theory in d-dimension
Why CFT?
Many theories are conformal field theory
Idea
Plan
All CFT share the conformal algebra
Main ingredient: A set of conformal primary local operators
Operators from an algebra OPE
Observable
Stress Tensor
OPE coefficient with Tensor
Function of identical scalar operator
Q&A
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International Centre for Theoretical Sciences