11 avril 2016 à 15 juillet 2016
Institut Henri Poincaré
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Theisen

Stefan Theisen, MPI Potsdam, and Adam Schwimmer, Weizmann Institute

Trace anomalies and their applications

 

The following topics will be covered:

- Relevant features of conformal field theories

- Weyl anomalies, their properties and classification

- Spontaneous breaking of conformal symmetry, anomaly matching and the a-theorem

- Holography and Weyl anomalies