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Bootstrapping CFTs with moduli spaces
Adar Sharon, UCLA
Event Type: HEP Seminar
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Location: 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar
Abstract: Many supersymmetric CFTs possess a continuous space of vacua, known as a moduli space. A long-standing open problem is to determine whether a CFT has a moduli space using only its CFT data, without using a Lagrangian description. In this talk, we make progress towards resolving this question. First, assuming a continuous global symmetry is spontaneously broken on the moduli space, we identify a universal necessary condition on the CFT data for it to have a moduli space. Then, in the generic case, we employ an analytic bootstrap equation to derive perturbative sum rules that constrain the data of any CFT with a moduli space. This talk is based on joint work with G. Cuomo and L. Rastelli.

Mathew Calkins
Event Type: Hep-Th Discussion Group
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Room #802