| course |
dates |
credits |
| Conformal Field Theories |
Jan 13 - Feb 6 |
3 |
| teachers |
schedule |
term |
|
Loriano Bonora
|
11:30 - 13:00 |
2 |
Program:
- Critical phenomena in 2 dimensions
- Conformal invariance in 2 dimensions
- CFT: E-M tensor, Virasoro algebra, primary fields
- Virasoro algebra representations
- Minimal models, conformal blocks and correlators
- N=1 superconformal models
- N=2 superconformal models, chiral rings
- Conformal field theories in D dimensions
- Conformal algebra in D dimension and SO(D+1,1)
- RG and conformal invariance
- Simple conformal invariant models
- Radial quantization
- Conformal correlators and the null-cone method
- OPE and bootstrap
- Conformal invariance and trace anomalies
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