IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

Edge Modes on String Horizons

Atish Dabholkar

For a quantum field of arbitrary mass and spin in the static patch of de Sitter spacetime, the Euclidean partition function receives contributions from edge modes localized on the horizon, expressible in terms of the Harish-Chandra character of the...

I will discuss the quantum resource known as magic and its analysis in many-fermion systems such as the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. I will show that the SYK calculation of magic can be quantitatively modeled with a gravity calculation involving...

It is believed that topologically ordered gapped local Hamiltonians in 2+1d consisting of commuting terms may not realize a chiral anyon theory. There is even a formula that expresses the chiral central charge of the edge theory as an integral of...

In this talk, I will discuss Cosmohedra. These are geometric objects which encode the vacuum wavefunction for theories with colored scalars with cubic interactions. I will start by introducing the vacuum wavefunction, both in Minkowski and de Sitter...