The statistics of spins for CFTs

by Nathan Benjamin (Caltech)

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 16:30 → 18:30 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

I will discuss universal behavior of CFT data at high energies. In particular I will discuss universal formulas for both the entropy and the three-point-functions of local operators for d-dimensional CFT (d>2) as a function of energy and spin, using a technique called thermal effective field theory. This result can be thought of as a higher-dimensional version of Cardy's formula for 2d CFTs. I will also discuss holographic interpretations of this result. Based on work to appear with J. Lee, H. Ooguri, and D. Simmons-Duffin.

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