Archive of IAS Physics Group Meetings

I will discuss an approach to integrable models from a four-dimensional Chern-Simons-type gauge theory. For introduction please have a look at E. Witten arXiv:1611.00592 or K. Costello arXiv:1308.0370. It might be interesting to look into some...

I will introduce the notion of the Swampland, first defined in 0509212/hep-th. I will then discuss a number of Swampland Conjectures, including "No Global Symmetries" (1011.5120/hep-th, 1810.05337/hep-th), the "Weak Gravity Conjecture" (0601001/hep...

These were originally discovered by Sen (see hep-th/9808141, hep-th/9809111, hep-th/9904207, for example). Another interesting paper is by Kraus and Larsen, hep-th/0012198.
I will describe a new perspective based on anomalies.

I will give introduction to general integrability-based methods to study two-dimensional quantum field theories. The goal (which I don't think I will achieve) is to explain how to compute the boundary entropy (also known as "g-function"), which...

I will review the averaged null energy condition, the Markov property and the quantum null energy condition in quantum field theory from an information-theoretic point of view. I will give some explicit examples from finite quantum systems and free...

I will discuss particle physics phenomenology from the point of view of statistical inference.
I will describe how the concept of information geometry can be used to equip the parameter space of a theory with a metric.
The central object in this...

I will review some of the connections between asymptotic symmetry groups, soft theorems for scattering amplitudes, and memory effects. If time permits I will also discuss special boundary operators for asymptotically flat gravity and their relation...

Suggested reading:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08971
A comment on effective field theories of flux vacua
Shamit Kachru, Sandip P. Trivedi
and references therein. Further references:

Review on flux vacua:
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610102

Counting...

I will sample a few interesting results in the subject of $T\bar T$ deformation, mostly from a field-theoretic point of view. I will start with spectrum of the $T\bar T$ deformed QFT and comment on its stringy nature. Then I will talk about the...

Suggested reading:

[1]: review of Euclidean and original derivation of Lorentzian
inversion formula https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00278

[2]: an alternative derivation https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03816

[3]: generalization to spin https://arxiv.org/abs...