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    TH Duality Workshop

    AdS-Flows, Weyl Gravity, and the Cosmological Constant

    by Christof SCHMIDHUBER (CERN)

    → Europe/Zurich
    TH Auditorium (CERN)

    TH Auditorium

    CERN
    Description
    An analogy is noted between RG flow equations in 4-dimensional gauge theory, as derived from the AdS/CFT correspondence, and the RG flow equations in 4-dimensional field theory coupled to a particular limit of Weyl supergravity. This suggests a possible theory of dynamical 3-branes with fluctuating 4-dimensional conformable factor. The argument involves a map from flows in 4-dimensional gauge theories to flows in a class of 2-dimensional sigma models.