Archive of IAS Physics Group Meetings

We will discuss various aspects of the manifold of conformal field theories. Most of the time will be devoted to a review of older background material. It will allow us to give a unified and more conceptual treatment of some recent results.

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Here are some possible references to review before the group discussion:

S-matrix and Soft Theorems
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2229
http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7026

Extended BMS Group
http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3312
http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03386

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I will describe some situations where mysterious features have appeared in numerical studies of the conformal bootstrap. It is tempting to speculate that they may correspond to new CFTs, but we do not yet have good guesses for a microscopic...

References for this group meeting are papers:

http://journals.aps.org/rmp/pdf/10.1103/RevModPhys.61.1

http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2607

http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.05710

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0301240

http://arxiv...

Fluid dynamics is a centuries old phenomenological framework at the centre of various fields of science and engineering. But, we have only recently began to appreciate its claim as a paradigmatic effective field theory of mixed states and its...

(Building on work by Sachdev, Ye, Parcollet and Georges) Kitaev has proposed a simple quantum mechanical model as a dual to an AdS_2 black hole. It would be nice to understand the bulk theory. (Is it local? Is there randomness? How is conformal...

Euclidean wormholes are simple solutions such as the one discussed in
the attached paper by Giddings and Strominger. (see email)
You can also have a look at the attached paper by Coleman.
You can also look at http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2768 and find...

I will introduce polynomial congruences and indicate why number theorists might care about them. I will then describe reciprocity laws which predict the number of solutions to a polynomial congruence in terms of discrete subgroups of Lie groups. The...