Date: 05 MAY 2022 from 15:00 to 16:00
Event location: In presence and online event
In the last few years, 2-dimensional Quantum Field Theories deformed by irrelevant operators have been receiving a steadily growing amount of attention from the Theoretical Physics community. The main reason for this interest lies in the unexpected amount of control that it is possible to exert on the high-energy properties of a vast family of these deformations. These, often referred to as “solvable irrelevant deformations”, in spite of being by standard arguments non-renormalisable, allow us to follow the irrelevant flow all the way to the UV and to obtain exact results on the high-energy physics. The latter are remarkable: the finite-size density of states grows exponentially at high energies, in a Hagedorn fashion reminiscent of String Theories. These deformed theories are not compatible with Wilson’s paradigm of local QFTs and cannot be considered conventional UV-complete theories. However, thanks to their robust features, they represent a sensible extension of the Wilsonian notion of a local QFT.
After recalling the main features of the TTbar deformations, the poster child of solvable irrelevant deformations, I will present the recent results obtained for a vast class of irrelevant deformations of 2D Integrable QFTs, paying particular attention to their interpretation as factorised scattering theories. This perspective reveals the importance of these theories in the task undertaken by the Bootstrap community of mapping out the space of consistent scattering matrices.