Speaker
Miguel Fernandes Paulos
(CERN)
Description
The conformal bootstrap aims to systematically constraint CFTs based on crossing symmetry and unitarity.
In this talk I will introduce a new approach to extract information from the crossing symmetry sum rules, based on the construction of linear functionals
with certain positivity properties. I show these functionals allow us to derive optimal bounds on CFT data. Furthemore I will argue that special extremal solutions to crossing form a basis for the crossing equation, with the functionals living in the dual space. As an application we reconstruct physics of QFTs in AdS2 from the properties of 1d CFTs.
