Holographic duality is a duality between gravitational systems
and non-gravitational systems. In this talk, I will propose a
different approach for understanding holographic duality named as
the exact holographic mapping. The key idea of this...
I will discuss an interpolation on the Coulomb branch of (1,1)
little string theory, from perturbative 6d SYM to double scaled
little string theory, by analyzing scattering amplitudes and the
related derivative expansion of the Coulomb branch...
While it has been known for some time that charged black branes
give rise to Fermi surfaces in AdS/CFT, only recently have enough
supergravity calculations been done to start asking systematically
when Fermi surfaces occur for the best understood...
We show that in 2d CFTs at large central charge, the coupling of
the stress tensor to heavy operators can be re-absorbed by placing
the CFT in a non-trivial background metric. This leads to a more
precise computation of the Virasoro conformal blocks...
The cusp anomalous dimension is an ubiquitous quantity in
four-dimensional gauge theories. It governs the dependence of a
cusped Wilson loop on the ultraviolet cut-off and appears in many
physical quantities. In particular, it controls the infrared...
Topological Superconductivity is a topic of current interest
because of its potential for providing a new method for storing and
manipulating quantum information. One of the most basic
consequences of topological superconductivity is the
fractional...
I will discuss the recent application of the conformal bootstrap
program to superconformal field theories (SCFTs) in 3d, focusing on
maximally supersymmetric theories. In particular, the constraints
from unitarity and crossing symmetry on the 4...
A candidate description for a strange metal phase in 1+1
dimensions,
namely a model of strongly-coupled fermions in the adjoint
representation of
SU(N) is considered. It is known that such models at high densities
flow
to IR WZNW theories having an...
