Conformal Field Theory (2024-25)
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- Lecturer: Profile: Romain Ruzziconi
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.
Section outline
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Registration start: Monday, 21 April 2025, 12:00 PMRegistration end: Friday, 23 May 2025, 12:00 PM
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Class Tutor's Comments Assignment
Class tutors will use this activity to provide overall feedback to students at the end of the course.
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