20–22 Jun 2018
Niels Bohr Institute
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Marika Taylor: "Holography beyond conformality"

21 Jun 2018, 14:00
45m
Auditorium D (Niels Bohr Institute)

Auditorium D

Niels Bohr Institute

Blegdamsvej 17 DK-2100 Copenhagen

Description

The original examples of dualities between gravity and quantum field theories involved conformal field theories, both in conformal phases and in spontaneously/explicitly broken symmetry phases. In this talk we will discuss geometric duals of irrelevant deformations of conformal field theories. While generically irrelevant deformations are viewed as being uncontrolled, holography picks out various classes of irrelevant deformations for which precise descriptions are possible. We will describe these and then discuss various applications of such holographic theories.

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