
Lorentzian Conformal Field Theory - Part 2
Simon Caron-Huot of McGill University continues his lecture on Lorentzian conformal field theory, delivered as part of the Prospects in Theoretical Physics summer program at the Institute for Advanced Study. Building on the first session, he works through the analytic structure of CFT correlators continued to Lorentzian signature, covering topics such as the Regge limit, causality constraints, and the machinery behind the Lorentzian inversion formula that recovers operator product expansion data from double discontinuities. The talk is aimed at graduate students and researchers already comfortable with conformal field theory basics, moving through derivations on the board with minimal detour into motivation, since that groundwork was laid in part one. Caron-Huot draws on his own research on dispersive sum rules and bounds on operator dimensions and OPE coefficients, connecting the formal analytic continuation arguments to concrete bootstrap applications used in current conformal bootstrap work.