| course | dates | credits |
| Conformal Field Theory | Jan 8 - Jan 30 | 3 |
| teachers | schedule | term |
| Sergio Benvenuti | 10:00 - 11:30 | 2 |
Program:
- Conformal symmetry in arbitrary space-time dimension
- Conformal algebra acting on functions and on fields
- Primaries and descendants
- Conformal correlators
- Radial quantization and the state-operator correspondence
- Reflection positivity and unitarity bounds
- Counting single trace primaries in free CFT's
- Scale invariance without conformal invariance
- The operator product expansion
- Conformal bootstrap
If there is time left, possible additional topics are:
- C and a theorems
- Large spin and large charge operators
- Higher spin symmetry in d>2 CFT's: Maldacena-Zhiboedov theorem
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