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In physics, the term bootstrap model is used for the class of theories that assume that very general consistency criteria are sufficient to determine the whole theory completely. In such theories, typically examples of quantum field theory, it is impossible to divide the objects and concepts to elementary and composite ones.

This strategy turned out to be successful only in the case of two-dimensional conformal field theory where many insights can indeed be derived by this method.

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