Archive of IAS Monday High Energy Theory Seminars

We present recent advances in constructions of globally consistent
F-theory compactifications with the exact chiral spectrum of the minimal
supersymmetric Standard Model. We highlight the first such example and
then turn to a subsequent systematic...

In many-body chaotic systems, the size of an operator generically grows in Heisenberg evolution, and is measured by out-of-time-ordered four-point functions. However, these only provide a coarse probe of the full underlying operator growth structure...

I will describe a large ensemble of compactifications of type IIB string theory on Calabi-Yau threefold hypersurfaces, obtained by triangulating polytopes from the Kreuzer-Skarke list. We have developed methods to compute effective theories in the...

In 1975 Hawking showed that the evaporation of black holes creates a problem for unitarity. This argument can be made rigorous through the small corrections theorem, and implies that there must be a fundamental change in our picture of semiclassical...

Beem et al. used a superconformal supercharge to localize N=4 Yang-Mills to a two-dimensional chiral theory. I will discuss my work with Gaiotto, in which we analyze the holographic dual of this localization. We argue that the same localization...

Compact Lie Algebras su(N) have aspects of their representations conveniently expressed in terms of matrices, but they also have some aspect that are most conveniently described by terms of graphical means, i.e. weight spaces, root space, Dynkin...

We study ’’t Hooft anomalies of 1-form and 0-form symmetries in SU(N) gauge theories with adjoint fermions, focusing on the rich worldvolume physics of domain walls mandated by anomaly inflow. In two semiclassical regimes—one of the high-T theory...

We compute the local second variation of the von Neumann entropy of a region in theories with a gravity dual. For null variations our formula says that the diagonal part of the Quantum Null Energy Condition is saturated in every state, thus...