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

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

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.