Spontaneously broken conformal invariance appears in many
contexts such as a class of Higgs portal models, N>=2 SYM on its
Coulomb branch, inflation and target space string theory. In
observables this broken symmetry is shown to lead to soft...
I will discuss the dimensional continuation of the sphere free
energy in conformal field theory. This provides a smooth
interpolation between a-anomaly coefficients in even dimensions and
F-values in odd dimensions, and suggests a generalization of...
Fluid dynamics is a centuries old phenomenological framework at
the centre of various fields of science and engineering. But, we
have only recently began to appreciate its claim as a paradigmatic
effective field theory of mixed states and its...
In the beginning of my talk I will review some general facts about
3d-3d correspondence and describe how to construct 3d theory T[M_3]
associated to a Seifert 3-manifold M_3. Then I will show how one
can calculate the Casson-Walker invariant of M_3...
(Building on work by Sachdev, Ye, Parcollet and Georges) Kitaev
has proposed a simple quantum mechanical model as a dual to an
AdS_2 black hole. It would be nice to understand the bulk theory.
(Is it local? Is there randomness? How is conformal...
Euclidean wormholes are simple solutions such as the one
discussed in
the attached paper by Giddings and Strominger. (see email)
You can also have a look at the attached paper by Coleman.
You can also look at http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.2768
and find...
