16.11.2017 (Thursday)

Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory

Regular Seminar James Drummond (U. Southampton)

at:
14:00 QMW
room G O Jones 610
abstract:

I will describe how to recast perturbative quantumgravity using non-perturbative techniques from conformal field theory,focussing on the case of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. By resolving thedegeneracy among double trace operators at large N we are able to bootstrapone-loop supergravity corrections from the OPE of the CFT.