Scale-Covariant Holography

by Nikolay Bobev (KU Leuven)

Tuesday 3 Nov 2026, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

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

I will discuss holography for a class of strongly coupled large-N QFTs arising from Dp-branes that enjoy a scale covariant behavior dictated by their dual supergravity description. I will argue that there is a vast landscape of such holographic theories and will illustrate this with explicit examples in diverse dimensions and various amounts of supersymmetry. I will then exploit the scaling similarity property of the supergravity solutions to derive simple Witten diagram rules for the calculation of n-point correlators and will show how to explicitly compute 2pt- and 3pt-functions. This leads to explicit results of the 2pt- and 3pt-functions of scalar operators in the strongly-coupled QFT, including the cases of the BFSS model and the 3d maximally supersymmetric YM theory, that could be tested using lattice QFT methods. Finally, I will sketch how one can use supersymmetric localization for the maximally supersymmetric YM theories on a sphere to compute the free energy and the expectation values of fundamental BPS Wilson loops and show that these results are in precise agreement with the predictions of scale-covariant holography.

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