A scattering amplitude in Conformal Field Theory

Black Holes, Newtonian Scattering and Conformal Field Theory A

We discuss non-relativistic scattering by a Newtonian potential. We show that the gray-body factors associated with scattering by a black hole exhibit the same functional dependence as scattering amplitudes in the Newtonian limit, which should be the weak-field limit of any quantum theory of gravity. This behavior arises independently of the presence of supersymmetry. The connection to two-dime...

Operads and Conformal Field Theory Lecture 1: Conformal Field Theory

Physicists have developed very advanced methods to compute such integrals. For example, the famous Feynman diagram technique allows us to compute the above integral for a rather particular function S(x), a small perturbation of a positive de nite quadratic form in R . Sometimes, elaborate techniques of physicists to compute simple things nd an amazing application to very general things in mathe...

Beyond Conformal Field Theory

This is an account of some recent work done with H. S. La [1] [2], based ultimately on the work of Fischler and Susskind [3] and Polchinski [4]. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Physics This conference paper is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/physics_papers/548 Beyond Conformal Field Theory

Logarithmic Conformal Field Theory

The periods of arbitrary abelian forms on hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces, in particular the periods of the meromorphic Seiberg-Witten differential λ SW , are shown to be in one-to-one correspondence with the conformal blocks of correlation functions of the rational logarithmic conformal field theory with central charge c = c 2,1 = −2. The fields of this theory precisely simulate the branched do...

Applied Conformal Field Theory