Orateur
Alessandro Vichi
(University of Pisa)
Description
Lecture 1:
- Introduction
- Conformal symmetry in $D\geq 2$ dimensions
- Unitarity/reflection positivity
Lecture 2:
- Operator Product Expansion and conformal blocks
- Crossing equations
Lecture 3:
- Recasting crossing symmetry as a convex optimisation problem (main logic)
Lecture 4:
- Applications of the numerical bootstrap: the Ising model in $D=2,3$ dimensions
