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In the original pioneering paper of Belavin, Polyakov, and Zamolodchikov (BPZ) [1], two questions were asked. Is conformal invariance by itself sufficiently restrictive to uniquely determine all Green’s functions of a conformal field theory? If not, then what additional conditions are necessary before we can solve for Green’s functions?
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Kaku, M. (1991). BPZ Bootstrap and Minimal Models. In: Strings, Conformal Fields, and Topology. Graduate Texts in Contemporary Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0397-8_2
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