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Lecture

Operator Product Expansion

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PHYS-739: Conformal Field theory and Gravity

This course is an introduction to holography, the modern approach to quantum gravity. ...

Description

This lecture covers the concept of Operator Product Expansion (OPE) in the context of Conformal Bootstrap. The instructor discusses the State-Operator map, primary and descendant operators, and the convergence inside correlation functions. The lecture delves into the mathematical formalism of OPE and its application in conformal field theory.

Instructors (2)

Kyriakos Papadodimas

Grégoire Olivier Mathys

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Ontological neighbourhood

Mathematics

Analysis: Functional analysis

Physics

Thermodynamics: Critical phenomena

Related concepts (32)

Conformal bootstrap

The conformal bootstrap is a non-perturbative mathematical method to constrain and solve conformal field theories, i.e. models of particle physics or statistical physics that exhibit similar properties at different levels of resolution. Unlike more traditional techniques of quantum field theory, conformal bootstrap does not use the Lagrangian of the theory. Instead, it operates with the general axiomatic parameters, such as the scaling dimensions of the local operators and their operator product expansion coefficients.

Liouville field theory

In physics, Liouville field theory (or simply Liouville theory) is a two-dimensional conformal field theory whose classical equation of motion is a generalization of Liouville's equation. Liouville theory is defined for all complex values of the central charge of its Virasoro symmetry algebra, but it is unitary only if and its classical limit is Although it is an interacting theory with a continuous spectrum, Liouville theory has been solved. In particular, its three-point function on the sphere has been determined analytically.

Virasoro algebra

In mathematics, the Virasoro algebra (named after the physicist Miguel Ángel Virasoro) is a complex Lie algebra and the unique central extension of the Witt algebra. It is widely used in two-dimensional conformal field theory and in string theory. The Virasoro algebra is spanned by generators Ln for n ∈ Z and the central charge c. These generators satisfy and The factor of is merely a matter of convention. For a derivation of the algebra as the unique central extension of the Witt algebra, see derivation of the Virasoro algebra.

Correlation

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate data. Although in the broadest sense, "correlation" may indicate any type of association, in statistics it usually refers to the degree to which a pair of variables are linearly related. Familiar examples of dependent phenomena include the correlation between the height of parents and their offspring, and the correlation between the price of a good and the quantity the consumers are willing to purchase, as it is depicted in the so-called demand curve.

Bounded operator

In functional analysis and operator theory, a bounded linear operator is a linear transformation between topological vector spaces (TVSs) and that maps bounded subsets of to bounded subsets of If and are normed vector spaces (a special type of TVS), then is bounded if and only if there exists some such that for all The smallest such is called the operator norm of and denoted by A bounded operator between normed spaces is continuous and vice versa. The concept of a bounded linear operator has been extended from normed spaces to all topological vector spaces.

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