Speaker
Gabriel Bliard
Date/Time
Date(s) - 17/05/2022
14:00 - 15:00
Location
IRIS Building, Room 1.221
When performing the localisation of 3D Chern-Simons theory with matter (ABJM) on a three-sphere, one stumbles across a surprising fact: The localised partition function resembles that of a gas of Fermions. Through the power of the AdS/CFT correspondence, this allows for an analysis of the M-theory limit through methods inherited from statistical mechanics. Dust off your undergraduate books and sharpen your pencils, because in this blackboard talk, we will be going through explicit examples and computations to better understand localisation, Fermi gases and the large N expansion in the context of ABJM.