Sylvain Ribault

I am a researcher in theoretical physics. I intend to contribute to Wikipedia on two-dimensional conformal field theory and related subjects. My aim is to write texts that are useful to students and researchers.

Main contributions to Wikipedia

Articles created

• Two-dimensional conformal field theory
• Virasoro conformal block
• Two-dimensional critical Ising model
• Representations of classical Lie groups
• Massless free scalar bosons in two dimensions
• Partition algebra

Articles expanded or rewritten

• Virasoro algebra
• Multiple gamma function
• Liouville field theory
• Minimal models
• Wess-Zumino-Witten model
• Conformal field theory
• Open peer review
• Representation theory of the symmetric group
• Brauer algebra
• Temperley-Lieb algebra
• W-algebra

Subpages

• A 2019 essay on Academics and Wikipedia: the WikiJournal experiment.
• A page for a Wikipedia tutorial at the school YRISW2019 on conformal field theory.
• A script for downloading and saving the wiki source for Wiki pages in a given category, parametrized for Appropedia.
• A collection of notes taken during the Bootstat 2021 program on "Conformal bootstrap and statistical models".
• A 2022 essay on Researchers: be lazy, write in Wikipedia.

Elsewhere on the web

• List of publications from Inspire.
• Blog "Research practices and tools" about scientific publishing, conformal field theory, etc.
• User page at Wikiversity.
• GitHub and GitLab
• Physics.StackExchange and Academia.StackExchange.