Speaker
Lorenzo Bianchi
(Turin U.)
Description
In this talk I will review the recent developments in the application of analytic bootstrap techniques to defect conformal field theories. I will briefly outline some applications and then I will focus on 1/2 BPS surface defects in N=4 SYM theory (the most notable example being Gukov Witten defects). I will show how analytic bootstrap tools can be used to compute the holographic bulk two-point function.