General Prerequisites: Quantum Field Theory (MT)
Course Overview: 16 lectures.
Areas: PT, CMT
Please submit your homework for Conformal Field Theory via the 'assignments' tab.
Lecturer(s):
Prof. Luis Fernando Alday
Assessment Type:
No formal assessment; homework completion
Course Synopsis: RG flows and scale invariance. Conformal transformations. Consequence of conformal invariance. Radial quantization and the operator algebra. Conformal invariance in two dimensions. The Virasoro algebra. Minimal models. Conformal bootstrap in d > 2.