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  title info:
    title: Points, Lines, and Surfaces at Criticality
  name:
    name part: Lauria, Edoardo.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 164 p. 21 illus., 17 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This thesis offers a fascinating journey through various non-perturbative aspects of Conformal Theories, in particular focusing on the Conformal Bootstrap Programme and its extensions to theories with various degrees of symmetry. Because of the preeminent role of Conformal Theories in Nature, as well as the great generality of the results here obtained, this analysis directly applies to many different areas of research. The content of this thesis is certainly relevant for the physics community as a whole and this relevance is well motivated and discussed along the various chapters of this work. The work is self-contained and starts with an original introduction to conformal theories, defects in such theories and how they lead to constraints on data and an extension of the bootstrap programme. This situation is often realized by critical systems with impurities, topological insulators, or -in the high-energy context- by Wilson and 't Hooft operators. The thesis continues with original research results of the author, including supersymmetric extensions. These results may be relevant non only in the high energy physics context - where supersymmetry is required for the theory to be consistent - but also for condensed matter systems that enjoy supersymmetry emergence at long distances.
  table of contents: Quantum Field Theories -- Conformal Field Theories -- Defects in Conformal Field Theories -- An Étude on N = 2 Conformal Manifolds in 3d -- Superconformal Blocks for SCFTs with Eight Supercharges -- Conclusion.
  note: by Edoardo Lauria.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum field theory
  subject:
    topic: String theory
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Field Theories, String Theory
  subject:
    topic: Condensed Matter Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  classification: QC174.45-174.52
  classification: 530.14
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      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783030257309
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25730-9
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