Conformal Field Theory (2020-21)
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General Prerequisites:
Quantum Field Theory (MT)
Course Term: Trinity
Course Weight: 1
Course Overview:
16 lectures. Made up of 8 x 2 hour slots.
Areas: PT, CMT
Links to homework submission:
Hanzhi Jiang's Class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/orxi2GdTXTMNaH6
Enrico Marchetto's Class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/kHMw3LXoD9KmRGR
Palash Singh's Class: https://cloud.maths.ox.ac.uk/index.php/s/55r4QxYYAWPwA8b
Lecturer(s):
Prof. Luis Fernando Alday
Assessment Type:
No formal assessment; homework completion
Course Synopsis:
1. RG flow, scale and conformal invariance
2. Conformal invariance in d-dimensions
3. Conformal invariance in 2-dimensions
4. The operator formalism and radial quantization
5. Virasoro algebra
6. Minimal model
7. Modular invariance
8. Conformal bootstrap