Inhaltsbereich
TVI/TMP-MD4: Conformal Field Theory – Overview
- Overview
- Exercises
Lecturer
About the lecture
Time and place
Mo 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. c.t. in A450Thu 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. c.t. in A450
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Topics of this course:
- Conformal transformations and the conformal algebra
- Correlators and Ward identities
- Conformal blocks
- Highest weight representations
- Torus partition function and the modular group
- Free field theory
- Superconformal field theory
- Advanced topics
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Recommended literature:
- Introduction to Conformal Field Theory by R. Blumenhagen & E. Plauschinn
- Conformal Field Theory by P. Di Francesco & P. Mathieu
- Introduction to Conformal Field Theory by A.N. Schellekens, www.nikhef.nl/~t58/CFT.pdf
- An Introduction to Conformal Field Theory by M. Gaberdiel, arxiv:hep-th/9910156
- Notes on CFT Winter Term 14/15 by D. Jaud, http://homepages.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~Daniel.Jaud/
Verantwortlich für den Inhalt: Daniel Jaud