| Brownian loops and conformally invariant systems |
| Valentino Foit, NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Event Type: Informal HEP Talk |
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| Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
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| Location: 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar |
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| Abstract: The Brownian loop soup (BLS) is a stochastic system that is constructed from random loops in the plane and is invariant under conformal transformations. Correlation functions of certain observables can be used to formulate the BLS as a Conformal Field Theory (CFT).
I will give an overview of CFTs in two dimensions and point out their relation to certain stochastic systems. Then I will discuss the BLS including some recent progress, such as the operator content, the continuous spectrum, and hints of an extended symmetry algebra. |