21.10.2022 (Friday)

Large N Partition Functions, Holography, and Black Holes

Regular Seminar Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven)

at:
13:00 IC
room B1004
abstract:

I will discuss the large N behavior of partition functions of the ABJM theory on compact Euclidean manifolds. I will pay particular attention to the S^3 free energy and the topologically twisted index for which I will present closed form expressions valid to all orders in the large N expansion. These results have important implications for holography and the microscopic entropy counting of AdS_4 black holes which I will discuss. I will also briefly discuss generalizations to other SCFTs arising from M2-branes.