ERC Consolidator Grant · 2022
The Bootstrap Program for Quantum Field Theory
The importance of quantum field theory (QFT) in modern theoretical physics is hard to overstate. Nevertheless a proper mathematical framework to describe field theories is still lacking. This is felt most concretely in the world of scattering amplitudes, whose general properties are difficult to define from existing axioms. This hampers our ability to make progress in understanding strongly coupled field theories. In contrast, for conformal field theories (CFTs) there has been remarkable progress in recent years. The key ingredient here is the operator product expansion, which both significantly constrains correlation functions and whose associativity conditions can be analyzed numerically.…
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