Speaker
Petr Kravchuk (King's College London)
Date/Time
Date(s) - 26/04/2024
14:00 - 15:30
Location
IRIS 1.221 & video conference (zoom)
Abstract:
On general grounds, the spectrum of a Conformal Field Theory (CFT) is expected to be extremely complicated away from special limits. One such limit consists of the lowest energy states for every angular momentum, known as the leading-twist states. In this talk I will discuss the structures that emerge in the spectrum as one departs from this limit towards the higher-twist states, focusing especially on the Regge trajectories. In particular, I will describe a general mechanism that reconciles the idea of Regge trajectories with the growing number of states at large spin. I will then demonstrate how this mechanism works in the case of one-loop phi^4 Wilson-Fisher theory in epsilon-expansion. This example will also clarify the properties of double-twist trajectories and light-cone bootstrap at higher-twist. Finally, I will briefly discuss a work in progress on going beyond the double-twist limit.