Speaker
Alexander Zhiboedov
(CERN)
Description
I will talk about recent progress in analytic approaches to the conformal bootstrap.
I will introduce Mellin space as a convenient tool to perform both perturbative and nonperturbative computations in conformal field theories. I will discuss dispersion relations in Mellin space, the sum rules that they lead to, and applications thereof. These include the Wilson-Fisher model in d=4-eps dimensions and holographic computations.
I will also talk about generalization of these techniques to finite temperatures.
