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PHY652A : Endterm projects ( only for registered students )

Blue texts are links.


• Deadlines: Topic choices are due by September 16, 2023. Please tell me
by email your choice of topic.
• Project reports are due on November 01, 2023. The report should be
named as :
2023M-652A-YourLastName-YourFirstName.pdf
• Paper vivas / presentations are on November 08 and 10, 2023. The format
will be the following : Prepare a 20 minutes chalkboard talk on the topic.
The viva will happen during the presentation. Total duration of each
presentation including question / answering will be 40 minutes. Questions
will mainly be asked by myself and Prof. Apratim Kaviraj. Others are
welcome to attend. Please present only what you completely understand.
• The endsem project report will be a short paper explaining the distilled
summary of a topic related to CFTs. The paper should be approximately
3 pages in a TeX format available for download here. You may include
arbitrarily many figures and appendix sections, which need not count to-
ward the page limit. Please only write what you can completely defend.
This document will have your name on it, and I plan to upload it in the
course webpage for others to read. Complicated technical details can be
relegated to the Appendix. There should be a clear logic to your report.
Pay attention to citing references carefully.
• Some topic suggestions (Lists of and links to references below are intended
as entry points to the literature, and not as complete citations of all good
work on the subject. For each paper you should of course always also read
all papers that cite it, as well as all of the papers to which it refers. The
order below is not meaningful.1 ) :
1. Conformal quantum mechanics. You can look into here and here.
Claimed by Debmalya
2. Topological entanglement entropy using CFTs, look into here and
into this paper.
3. Thermal conformal bootstrap. You can look into this paper and into
this.
4. Random matrix behaviour in CFTs. Start with this paper and this
one. Claimed by Arpan
5. Zamolodchikov recursion relations for conformal blocks. This is the
original paper. There are multiple citations, including a numerical
implementation of the algorithm present here (see among the ancil-
lary files). This is a discussion in context of Virasoro characters.
1 This list will keep getting updated.
6. Modular linear differential equations. This reference started this
fruitful endeavour. You can check citations of the paper when you
go deeper. Claimed by Jignesh
7. Truncated conformal space approach. This is the original paper. See
here for a recent application.
8. Percolation through CFTs. This thesis and its references should be
a good starting point. Claimed by Sariful
9. Turbulence using CFT. The first paper to discuss this is this one.
Check its citations as well.Claimed by Pushkar
10. Causality constraints in CFTs : HJK paper. Claimed by Prakriti
11. Spinning conformal correlators : you can understand and present
from this paper. Claimed by Shibam
12. Scale vs. conformal invariance, for 4D you can refer to this paper.
Consult references and citations of the paper. Claimed by Aryabrat
13. N = 4 SYM. You can consult chapter 4 of this PDF. Look also into
chapters 4 and 5 of this one. Claimed by Yash
14. Non-relativistic CFTs. Good references are: this, this and Sridip
Pal’s thesis. Claimed by Sharang
15. More CFT examples in 1/N . Look into this PDF and its references.
Most important paper is this one. Some technical ones are this and
this one.
16. Starting with a review of Liouville CFTs e.g., by using this paper, try
to formulate the critical Ising model on a random lattice. Claimed
by Suman
17. Momentum space Ward identities ( for example) and connection with
dS, you can follow this paper . Claimed by Adarsh
18. Quantum gravity partition function in three dimensions. This started
mainly with this paper. Attempts to resolve the pointed out problems
were carried out in this, this and more recently in this paper.

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