23–25 Sept 2024
Accademia Pontaniana - Napoli
Europe/Rome timezone

The Numerical Bootstrap of Points and Lines

23 Sept 2024, 15:55
25m
Aula Magna (Accademia Pontaniana - Napoli)

Aula Magna

Accademia Pontaniana - Napoli

Via Mezzocannone, 8 - 80134 Napoli

Speaker

Marco Meineri

Description

I will describe how to constrain the spectrum of local operators and boundary conditions, in two dimensions, using the numerical bootstrap. Even for rational theories, it is hard to construct examples of boundary conditions which break all symmetry except Virasoro, let alone classify them. Yet, as always, the OPE data associated with each conformal boundary condition obeys crossing and unitarity. The ensuing constraints can be organized in a semidefinite program, which allows exploration of a multi-dimensional parameter space involving bulk and boundary data.

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