Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory

by James Drummond (University of Southampton)

Thursday 23 Nov 2017, 14:15 → 15:15 Europe/Berlin

SR2 (DESY Hamburg)

I will describe how to recast perturbative quantum gravity using non-perturbative techniques from conformal field theory, focussing on the case of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. By resolving the degeneracy among double trace operators at large N we are able to bootstrap one-loop supergravity corrections from the OPE of the CFT.

Video http://webcast.desy.de/?p=7886&lang=en