Properties of CFT operators carrying some large global charge can
be systematically computed in a 1/Q expansion by assuming that the
corresponding states on the cylinderare described by a supefluid
phase. In particular one can compute the spectrum...
After a brief review (suitable for physicists) of computational
genomics and complex traits, I describe recent progress in this
area.Using methods from Compressed Sensing (L1-penalized
regression; Donoho-Tanner phase transition with noise) and the...
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for the day. Lunch will not be available in the dining hall.
We study the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) in chaotic
conformal field theories (CFTs) of arbitrary dimensions. Assuming
local ETH, we compute the reduced density matrix of a ball-shaped
subsystem of finite size in the infinite volume...
There seem to be no good examples of UV complete theories that have
low-lying massive higher spin states isolated by a large gap,
despite the relative ease of constructing effective field theories
describing such states. We discuss constraints from...
We discuss how to obtain dynamics of semiclassical gravity in 3d
AdS from the large central charge limit of irreducible
representations of the conformal algebra of 2d CFTs, with a focus
on black hole information loss and bulk reconstruction. We...
String field theory is the refined definition of string theory,
formulated in the language of quantum field theory. Unlike the
conventional Polyakov approach, it provides a well defined
prescription for computing the scattering amplitudes in string...
