This talk will give a brief overview focused on six papers
written by D. Gaiotto, G. Moore, and A. Neitzke
loosely centered around the topics mentioned in the title. The
papers are on the arXiv.
Background reading: Some short reviews are: https:/...
The center of the Milky Way hosts the closest supermassive black
hole and nuclear star cluster to the Earth, offering us the
opportunity to study the physics of supermassive black holes and
their environment at a level of detail not possible...
We present a first-principles derivation of a weak-strong
duality between the four-dimensional fishnet theory in the planar
limit and a discretized string-like model living in AdS5. At strong
coupling, the dual description becomes classical and we...