Gauge/Gravity Duality 2015

Session

Morning session

Apr 14, 2015, 9:00 AM

The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI)

2. The Membrane Paradigm at large D

Shiraz Minwalla

4/14/15, 9:00 AM

3. Entanglement Entropy and Boundary Terms: Two Short Stories

Christopher Herzog

4/14/15, 9:40 AM

Conformal transformations to hyperbolic space are a useful tool for calculating entanglement entropies in conformal field theories. I will use this tool to calculate thermal corrections to entanglement entropy for conformal field theories on spheres. I will also consider the universal log contribution to the entanglement entropy for CFTs in even dimensional flat space. In both cases, we will...

12. Twisted index of 3d gauge theories

Alberto Zaffaroni

4/14/15, 10:50 AM

We discuss general results for a generalized twisted partition function of 3d gauge theories on S^2 X S^1 which are relevant for the holographic interpretation of supersymmetric AdS4 black holes.

13. A menagerie of non-relativistic physics

Kristan Jensen

4/14/15, 11:20 AM

Spacetime symmetries lead to non-perturbative constraints on transport, like the Einstein relation between electric and thermal conductivity. I will discuss some recent progress in the understanding of the spacetime symmetries of non-relativistic systems, like the quantum and anomalous Hall effects, as well as the corresponding implications for transport. Unexpectedly, these results also shed...

14. BPS Wilson loops and an exact result for the Bremsstrahlung function in ABJM model

Silvia Penati

4/14/15, 11:50 AM

We discuss results and quantum properties of a family of generalized fermionic Wilson loops in ABJ(M) theory. We propose an all-order prescription for computing the Bremsstrahlung function associated to the 1/2-BPS cusp in terms of this family of WL. The validity of this prescription is a non-trivial test of the AdS4/CFT3 correspondence.

35. Supersymmetric AdS(5) solutions of massive type IIA supergravity

Achilleas Passias

4/14/15, 12:20 PM

We discuss the classification of generic N = 1 supersymmetric AdS(5) x M solutions of massive type IIA supergravity and the discovery of new analytic ones. The necessary and sufficient conditions for supersymmetry amount to a system of differential conditions on a local identity structure on M. Known AdS(5) solutions of type IIA supergravity are reproduced by the latter. Upon making ...