Speaker
Dr. Emanuel Malek (HU)
Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/04/2021
14:00
Location
video conference (zoom)
The AdS/CFT correspondence is a powerful tool for studying strongly coupled QFTs by performing computations in string theory and its low energy limit, supergravity. I will review Exceptional Field Theory, a formalism that unifies gravitational and flux degrees of freedom of supergravity, and thereby makes a large exceptional symmetry group manifest. This large symmetry group simplifies many complicated calculations in AdS backgrounds, such as constructing consistent truncations or computing the spectrum of linearised fluctuations around AdS vacua. I will show how this can be used to gain insights into strongly coupled QFTs. Finally, it time permits, I will discuss applications to non-supersymmetric AdS vacua.
Location: Zoom Webinar (see qft-colloquium email for meeting ID/link)