Speaker
Colum Flynn
Description
The Zamolodchikov recursion relations are widely used in numerical conformal bootstrap, especially in three dimensions, as they provide an efficient way to compute conformal blocks. In even dimensions, however, they are not well understood because conformal blocks can develop double poles. We develop the general theory for conformal blocks with double poles by using representation theory of the conformal group and considering logarithmic extensions of parabolic Verma modules.