School of 2024
Thirtieth School: Bayrischzell, Germany
2.9.-13.9.2024
funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Lecture Program:
| Martin Beneke (TU München) | Foundations and applications of effective field theories |
| Agnese Bissi (Uppsala & ICTP, Trieste) | The conformal bootstrap approach |
| Joe Davighi (CERN) | Anomalies – a modern perspective |
| Iñaki García Etxebarria (Durham) | Generalized Symmetries |
| Ingmar Saberi (LMU München) | Lie algebras, locality, and moduli in field theory |
The instruction language is English.
Some lecture notes may appear later and will be made available here
Material for Exercises
Bissi: https://indico.physik.uni-muenchen.de/event/175/
Beneke: https://users.ph.nat.tum.de/ga49yar/bayrischzellEFTlectures/
Recommended Literature (to be updated):
- Beneke:
[1] Refresh your knowledge on QFT keywords such as “dimensional regularization”, “renormaliation”, “(superficial) degree of divergence”, “renormalization group equation”,
“relevant, marginal, irrelevant operators”,
for instance from Schwartz’ “Quantum field Theory” textbook,
or Collins “Renormalization”
[2] U.-G. Meissner and A. Rusetsky, Effective Field Theories, CUP 2022
read Chapter 1 “Basic concepts”
[3] A. Manohar, Introduction to Effective Field Theories , 2017 Les Houches Lectures
[4] C.P. Burgess, Effective Field Theory, CUP 2021, Chapters 1-4 - Bissi:
Bissi, Sinha & Zhou: Selected Topics in Analytic Conformal Bootstrap: A Guided Journey
Poland, Rychkov & Vichi, The Conformal Bootstrap: Theory, Numerical Techniques, and Applications
Caron-Huot, Analyticity in Spin in Conformal Theories - Davighi:
[1] Chapter 3 from David Tong’s lectures on Gauge Theory
[2] Preskill: Gauge anomalies in an effective field theory, Annals Phys. 210 (1991) 323-379
[3] Witten: Fermion Path Integrals and Topological Phases
[4] Witten and Yonekura: Anomaly Inflow and the eta-invariant
- García Etxebarria:
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5148
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.20815 - Saberi:
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402057
[2] part 3 of K. Costello & O. Gwilliam, Factorization Algebras in Quantum FIeld Theory, Vol. 2
