High Energy Physics Seminar - Per Kraus (UCLA) "Conformal Blocks and AdS Gravity

Per Kraus
September 3, 2015
2:30PM - 3:30PM
2035 Physics Research Building

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2015-09-03 14:30:00 2015-09-03 15:30:00 High Energy Physics Seminar - Per Kraus (UCLA) "Conformal Blocks and AdS Gravity The conformal block decomposition is a powerful way of organizing correlation functions in conformal field theories.   The AdS/CFT duality allows for a geometrical approach to such theories in terms of classical gravity.   I will explain how these two sets of ideas are related and work together.  2035 Physics Research Building America/New_York public

The conformal block decomposition is a powerful way of organizing correlation functions in conformal field theories.   The AdS/CFT duality allows for a geometrical approach to such theories in terms of classical gravity.   I will explain how these two sets of ideas are related and work together.