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- Lecturer: Profile: Johan Karlsson
Course information
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.
Areas: PT, CMT
Assessment Type: Homework completion only
Areas: PT, CMT
Assessment Type: Homework completion only
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.
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.