Kick-off event: AI and the future of mathematics and physics - 21.10.2026
In light of recent developments, the incoming kick-off event at the Institut Henri Poincaré will take the form of a debate gathering mathematicians and theoretical physicists around the role of AI in the practice of research. Registration: indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/17376/.
Theoretical Physics
Conformal boundary conditions for free fields
byEdoardo Lauria
Abstract:I will discuss the problem of classifying (interacting) conformal boundary conditions for the simplest bulk conformal field theories: free fields. I will mention concrete examples based on perturbation theory, and then describe results using the numerical conformal bootstrap approach, specifically in the case of a scalar field in four and three bulk dimensions.
Keywords:
Critical phenomena, boundary conformal field theory, conformal bootstrap.