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

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-12-28 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

This is a writeup of lectures given at the EPFL Lausanne in the fall of 2012. The topics covered: physical foundations of conformal symmetry, conformal kinematics, radial quantization and the OPE, and a very basic introduction to conformal bootstrap.

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@article{arxiv.1601.05000,
  title  = {EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D>= 3 Dimensions},
  author = {Slava Rychkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.05000},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

68 pages; v2 - misprints corrected