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The conformal bootstrap at finite temperature
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I will explain how the conformal bootstrap, which has recently seen great success in understanding theories on R^d for d > 2, can be extended to analyzing theories at finite temperature. To do so, I will focus on thermal one and two-point functions of local operators on the plane (on R^{d−1} × S^1 ). By studying the analytic properties of thermal two-point functions, I will present a ”thermal inversion formula” whose output is the set of thermal one-point functions for all operators appearing in a given OPE. As an application of the inversion formula, I will show exact results for the large-N critical O(N)-vector model and will show estimates for the thermal one-point functions in the 3d Ising model.
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