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EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in D>= 3 Dimensions

Slava Rychkov
(
- CERN and
- Ecole Normale Superieure and
- UPMC, Paris (main)
)

Jan 19, 2016

68 pages

Published in:

SpringerBriefs in Physics

ISBN:

9783319436258 (Print),
9783319436265 (eBook)

e-Print:

1601.05000 [hep-th]

DOI:

10.1007/978-3-319-43626-5

Report number:

CERN-TH-2016-012

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Abstract: (arXiv)

This is a writeup of lectures given at the EPFL Lausanne in the fall of 2012. The topics covered: physical foundations of conformal symmetry, conformal kinematics, radial quantization and the OPE, and a very basic introduction to conformal bootstrap.

Note:

68 pages; v2 - misprints corrected

field theory: conformal
dimension: 3

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