Timeline for Quantum field theory being deformation of conformal field theory?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
6 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2018 at 15:21 | comment | added | Elliot Schneider | See, for example, the introduction to 1602.07982 or 1601.05000 | |
| Mar 12, 2018 at 8:33 | comment | added | Sylvain Ribault | See also this question: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/339309/… | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 19:50 | comment | added | Sylvain Ribault | The idea might be that by rescaling a QFT you reach a renormalization group fixed point; that fixed point is scale-invariant and therefore in many cases conformally invariant; then can we recover the original QFT by deforming that CFT? This is how I would understand the question, but I do not know the answer. Anyway it is no more absurd to consider QFT as a deformation of CFT, than to consider QFT as a deformation of free QFT. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 5:37 | comment | added | Prof. Legolasov | Without the context, this claim sounds absurd, sorry. | |
| Mar 11, 2018 at 2:43 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited tags; edited title
|
| Mar 11, 2018 at 0:24 | history | asked | michelav | CC BY-SA 3.0 |