Volker Schomerus (DESY, Hamburg)

Title: Integrability of Conformal Symmetry

Abstract: Over the last few decades, and in particular with the discovery of the AdS/CFT correspondence,
Conformal Field Theory has developed into a central research topic that provides unique new
views into the perturbative and non-perturbative dynamics of quantum field theories. But in spite
of all the recent advances, our understanding of conformal symmetry and its group theoretic
implications is very much lagging behind. In my talk I will address this bottleneck in the study of
conformal field theories and review the profound relation between multi-point invariants of the
conformal group and (Gaudin) integrability. This relation will be illustrated through some explicit
examples before I discuss selected applications.

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