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## Conformal field theory on the plane

Sylvain Ribault
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#### Abstract

We provide an introduction to conformal field theory on the plane in the conformal bootstrap approach. We introduce the main ideas of the bootstrap approach to quantum field theory, and how they apply to two-dimensional theories with local conformal symmetry. We describe the mathematical structures which appear in such theories, from the Virasoro algebra and its representations, to the BPZ equations and their solutions. As examples, we study a number of models: Liouville theory, (generalized) minimal models, free bosonic theories, the $H_3^+$ model, and the $SU_2$ and $\widetilde{SL}_2(\mathbb{R})$ WZW models.

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cea-01062770 , version 1 (10-09-2014)

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Sylvain Ribault. Conformal field theory on the plane. 2014. ⟨cea-01062770⟩

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