Speaker
Joerg Teschner
(DESY)
Description
In the the first lecture I will outline the main mathematical features of the bootstrap
approach to Liouville conformal field theory, assembling the Liouville correlation function
from holomorphic functions called conformal blocks. The most important properties
of the conformal blocks will be described. The second lecture will review a construction
of the conformal blocks using an analytic version of the free field representation. If time
permits, we will outline how the free field representation can be used to derive the braid
relations, which can serve as a key ingredient in the bootstrap approach.
