IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

Various Jackiw–Teitelboim (JT) gravity and supergravity theories have been shown (by Saad, Shenker and Stanford, and by Stanford and Witten) to have double scaled random matrix model descriptions, capturing the (spacetime) topological perturbative...

The appearance of BMS symmetry as the asymptotic symmetry of Minkowski spacetime suggests a holographic relation between Einstein gravity and quantum field theory with BMS invariance, dubbed BMSFT. With a three dimensional bulk, the dual BMSFT is a...

Abstract: When Alice shares thermofield double with Bob, her time evolution can make the wormhole grow. We identify different kinds of operations Alice can do as being responsible for the growth of different parts of spacetime and see how it fits...

A few years ago, K.Costello proposed how to isolate a self-contained, protected subsector of the M2 brane AdS4/CFT3 correspondence and demonstrated the holographic duality explicitly for the OPE of the corresponding boundary local operators. The...

In this talk we will present details of quantum extremal surface computations in a simple setup, demonstrating the role of entanglement islands in resolving entropy paradoxes in gravity. The setup involves eternal AdS2 black holes in thermal...

Abstract: I will show that the isometry group of asymptotically flat spacetimes contains, in addition to the BMS group, a new dual supertranslation symmetry. The corresponding new conserved charges are akin to the large magnetic U(1) charges in QED...

I will explain that a geometric theory built upon the theory of complex surfaces can be used to understand wide variety of phenomena in five-dimensional supersymmetric theories, which includes the following: Classification of 5d superconformal field...

Abstract: A new approach to solving random matrix models directly in the large N limit is developed. First, a set of numerical values for some low-pt correlation functions is guessed. The large N loop equations are then used to generate values of...

Abstract: We will describe work in progress in which we argue that a generalization of the procedure developed by Gao-Jafferis-Wall can allow one to see the entirety of the entanglement wedge. Gao-Jafferis-Wall demonstrated that one can see...

The Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics has many advantages, but its standard presentation destroys manifest covariance. This can be avoided by using the "covariant phase formalism" of Iyer and Wald, but until recently this formalism has suffered...