Category
page 1Conformal field theory
critical point
temperature and pressure point where phase boundaries disappear
AdS/CFT correspondence
duality between theories of gravity on anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theories
critical phenomena
physics of critical points
conformal field theory
quantum field theory enjoying conformal symmetry
Virasoro algebra
complex Lie algebra, the unique central extension of the Witt algebra
scale invariance
features that do not change if length or energy scales are multiplied by a common factor
vertex operator algebra
vertex algebra equipped with a conformal element
N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory
four-dimensional superconformal gauge theory with 16 supercharges
Wess–Zumino–Witten model
type of 2D conformal field theory
conformal symmetry
extension to the Poincaré group
Yang–Baxter equation
consistency equation which was first introduced in the field of statistical mechanics
Polyakov action
action describing the worldsheet of a string in string theory
Witt algebra
one of basic infinite-dimensional Lie algebras
operator product expansion
expansion of the product of two local operators inserted close to each other as an asymptotic series with local-operator coefficients
ABJM superconformal field theory
quantum field theory
two-dimensional conformal field theory
theory
central charge
term in theoretical physics
Liouville field theory
two-dimensional conformal field theory