DESY/Hamburg U. String Theory Seminar

Thermal one-point functions and single-valued polylogs: a spurious remark or something deeper?

by Anastasios Petkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Europe/Berlin
Description

I present an overview on some recent progress in thermal one-point function in CFTs for general odd dimensions. On the one hand, they can be calculated using an extension of analytic bootstrap techniques to finite temperature. On the other hand, they are associated to single-valued polylogarithms which represent multiloop amplitudes and gauge theories. Some possible implications of the latter observation will be discussed.