High Energy Theory Seminar

The AdS/CFT correspondence provides a non-perturbative formulation of quantum gravity, and in particular it provides a precise definition of a gravitational path integral. Applying the duality to solvable CFTs could give insight to the nature of holography and clarify other puzzles in quantum gravity. In this talk I will focus on simplest possible version of this correspondence: the duality between the critical Ising model and three dimensional general relativity with negative cosmological constant.