9–20 Mar 2026
IGAP, Trieste
Europe/Zurich timezone

Near-extremal hydrodynamics and the holographic product formula

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20m
Seminar Room D (IGAP, Trieste)

Seminar Room D

IGAP, Trieste

Via Beirut 2, 34151 Trieste 34136 Trieste, Italy

Speaker

Edwan Préau (Utrecht University)

Description

I will discuss the recently introduced holographic product formula in the context of near-extremal hydrodynamics, which corresponds to the regime of energy ω, momentum k and temperature T much smaller than a hard scale μ.
I will explain how this formula determines the general form taken by holographic spectral functions in this regime. This form simplifies in the extremal limit T ≪ ω, k ≪ μ, for which the low-temperature
gapless modes and the IR conformal behavior factorize.
I will then present some examples with different types of gapless modes and IR CFTs, including new numerical results for low temperature quasi-normal modes.

Author

Edwan Préau (Utrecht University)

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