Archive of IAS Monday High Energy Theory Seminars

Causality in quantum field theory is encoded in the averaged null energy condition. I will describe how, in large-N CFTs, this energy condition is replaced by a stronger inequality involving the spectrum of the length operator in the dual AdS. This...

While the canonical formulation of graviton perturbation theory is calculationally complex, the freedoms of nonlinear field redefinition and gauge fixing allow for immense simplification and the uncovering of new structures in perturbative gravity...

I will present a general argument for the local bound on the null-null component of the stress tensor in a QFT called the Quantum Null Energy Condition. The argument involves the study of correlation functions of operators undergoing modular...

I will describe some recent work studying proposals for computational complexity in holographic theories. I will discuss properties of the new gravitational observables and of complexity in the boundary theory.

Talk based on https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.06670