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Mathematical Sciences

Bulk Duals for Generic Static, Scale-Invariant Holographic CFT States Seminar

Time:
13:00
Date:
20 May 2015
Venue:
54/7035

Event details

String Theory Seminar

Certain static, near horizon geometries are now understood to be bulk duals to CFTs with static scale-invariant sources under the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, static near-horizon geometries aren't just scale-invariant, they have extra `enhanced' symmetry. This means that they can only be the bulk duals for the special class of static, scale-invariant sources that share this enhanced symmetry. In this talk I will present numerical constructions of bulk duals for more generic static, scale-invariant sources, without this extra symmetry. These solutions are quite different to near-horizon geometries. In place of the extremal horizon they have a null singularity. I will discuss the potential relevance of these geometries to the problem of finding the IR geometry in the bulk dual for more generic CFT source terms.

Speaker information

Andrew Hickling, Imperial College. Postgraduate research student

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