Renormalization group flows, the \(a \)-theorem and conformal bootstrap

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)014zbMath1437.81058arXiv1912.09479OpenAlexW3102361440MaRDI QIDQ779292

Sandipan Kundu

Publication date: 21 July 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09479

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryrenormalization groupanomalies in field and string theorieseffective field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Effective quantum field theories (81T12)

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