Conformal Field Theory (2022-23)

General Prerequisites:
Quantum Field Theory (MT)
Course Term: Trinity
Course Lecture Information: 16 lectures
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures. Made up of 8 x 2 hour slots.
Lecturer: Christoph Uhlemann
Areas: PT, CMT
Course Synopsis:
1.- Motivation: RG flows and scale invariance.
2.- Conformal transformations.
3.- Consequence of conformal invariance.
4.- Radial quantization and the operator algebra.
5.- Conformal invariance in two dimensions.
6.- The Virasoro algebra.
7.- Minimal models.
8.- Conformal bootstrap in d > 2.