DESY/Hamburg U. String Theory Seminar

Quantum Gravity from Conformal Field Theory

by James Drummond (University of Southampton)

Europe/Berlin
SR2 (DESY Hamburg)

SR2

DESY Hamburg

Description
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.
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