The bulk stress tensor and conformal restriction
Speaker:
John Cardy, University of Oxford
Date and Time:
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 3:15pm to 4:15pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
In conformal field theory a crucial role is played by the bulk stress tensor and its associated Ward identities. An object is defined in SLE8/3, and other processes satisfying conformal restriction, which is shown to obey these identities, and which thus may be regarded as the definition of the stress tensor. Coauthors are Benjamin Doyon, Valentina Riva. This generalises earlier results of Friedrich and Werner.