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STAG Research Centre

String Theory seminar - Avia Raviv-Moshe [NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME: TUESDAY 15:00] Seminar

Time:
15:00
Date:
19 October 2021
Venue:
Online seminar

For more information regarding this seminar, please email David Turton at d.j.turton@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Title: Renormalization Group Flows on Line Defects

Abstract: In this talk, we will consider line defects in d-dimensional CFTs. The ambient CFT places nontrivial constraints on renormalization group flows on such line defects. We will see that the flow on line defects is consequently irreversible and furthermore a canonical decreasing entropy function exists. This construction generalizes the g theorem to line defects in arbitrary dimensions. We will demonstrate this generalization in some concrete examples, including a flow between Wilson loops in 4 dimensions, and an O(3) bosonic theory coupled to impurities with large isospin.

 

 

 

Speaker information

Avia Raviv-Moshe, Stony Brook.

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