Speaker
Dr
Thomas Hartman
(Institute for Advanced Study)
Description
It was recently conjectured that higher spin gravity in three dimensions is holographically dual to a simple, exactly solveable conformal field theory called the W_N minimal model. This raises the possibility of tackling some difficult questions in holography or quantum gravity by performing exact computations at all values of the coupling. I will describe the motivation for studying simplified models of holography based on higher spin gravity, and prove that in this particular duality the spectrum matches exactly at large N.
Authors
Dr
Matthias R. Gaberdiel
(ETH Zurich)
Dr
Rajesh Gopakumar
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
Dr
Suvrat Raju
(Harish-Chandra Research Institute)
Dr
Thomas Hartman
(Institute for Advanced Study)
