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Bootstrapping Smooth Line Operators in Chern-Simons-Matter CFTs
07/10
2024
Seminar
- Title Bootstrapping Smooth Line Operators in Chern-Simons-Matter CFTs
- Speaker De-liang Zhong (Imperial College London)
- Date 10:00 Jul. 10, 2024
- Venue 6520
Abstract
We introduce a bootstrap approach for analyzing conformal line defects in large N Chern-Simons matter theories within conformal field theory frameworks. We base our method on three assumptions: conformal invariance, large N factorization, and the operator spectrum on the line. Our analysis involves solving the one-dimensional CFT on the line defect and evaluating its expectation value via an expansion around a straight line. While straight-line symmetry is insufficient for a complete solution, imposing symmetry constraints along a curved line yields a unique and solvable functional bootstrap constraint.
Biography
Dr. De-liang Zhong received his bachelor's degree from Peking University in 2014 and his Ph.D. from Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris in 2019. He conducted postdoctoral research at Tel Aviv University in Israel from 2019 to 2023 and is currently continuing his postdoctoral research at Imperial College London.
Inviter
Gang Yang