Lucia Cordova (CERN), From conformal correlators to analytic S-matrices: CFT_1/QFT_2

Tuesday 28 Feb 2023, 14:00 → 15:30 Europe/Stockholm

Albano 3: 6228 - Mega (22 seats) (Albano Building 3)

In this talk I will explain how S-matrices emerge from the flat space limit of CFT correlators. Using tools like Polyakov blocks and analytic functionals, I will describe how the expected properties of the S-matrix like analyticity are characterized in terms of the CFT data. To illustrate the flat space limit, I will show perturbative examples starting from free fields in AdS2 and comment on the emergence of anomalous thresholds. If time permits I will discuss the relation between the dual S-matrix bootstrap and analytic functionals in CFT.