01.02.2024 (Thursday)

From Gravity's Attractive Blocks to Matrix Models and Back

Regular Seminar Morteza Hosseini (Imperial College)

at:
14:00 QMUL
room G.O. Jones 610 and Zoom
abstract:

The quest to understand the microscopic origins of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy has been a longstanding challenge for physicists. In the context of AdS black holes, this entropy is expected to be explicable in terms of the states of the holographic dual quantum field theory, as per the AdS/CFT framework. In my talk, I will introduce the idea of gluing gravitational blocks for supersymmetric AdS black holes in String/M-theory with arbitrary rotation and generic electric and magnetic charges. This approach provides insights into the large N behavior of the partition function of the corresponding holographic dual field theory. Time permitting, I will also delve into the partition function of the 6d (2, 0) theory on S^2 x M_3, where M_3 is either a three-sphere or S^2 x S^1, and analyse its large N behaviour.