High Energy Theory - Thomas Hartman, Cornell University - "Causality Constraints in Conformal Field Theory"

Date
Dec 7, 2015, 2:30 pm3:30 pm
Location
Jadwin A07

Details

Event Description
In effective field theory, causality fixes the signs of certain interactions. I will describe how these Lorentzian constraints are encoded in the Euclidean theory, and use the conformal bootstrap to derive analogous causality constraints in CFT. Applied to spinning fields, these constraints include (some of) the Hofman-Maldacena bounds derived from conformal collider physics. I will also discuss applications to holographic theories.