04.10.2023 (Wednesday)

Renormalization group flows in AdS and the bootstrap program

Regular Seminar Marco Meineri (U. Turin)

at:
13:45 KCL
room S0.12
abstract:

We consider the renormalization group flow of a quantum field theory (QFT) in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space. We derive sum rules that express UV data and the energy of a chosen eigenstate in terms of the spectral densities and certain correlation functions of the theory. In two dimensions, this leads to a bootstrap setup that involves the UV central charge and may allow us to follow a Renormalization Group (RG) flow non-perturbatively by continuously varying the AdS radius. Along the way, we establish the convergence properties of the newly discovered local block decomposition, which applies to three-point functions involving one bulk and two boundary operators.