Analytic bootstrap for perturbative conformal field theories

Thesis

Conformal field theories (CFTs) play a central role in theoretical physics with many applications ranging from condensed matter to string theory. The conformal bootstrap studies conformal field theories using mathematical consistency conditions and has seen great progress over the last decade. In this thesis we present an implementation of analytic bootstrap methods for perturbative conformal field theories in dimensions greater than two, which we achieve by combining large spin perturbati...

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Authors: Henriksson, J

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Conformal field theory; Conformal bootstrap
• Subjects: Mathematical physics