TH String Theory Seminar

Permutation orbifolds: exploring the landscape of theories of quantum gravity in AdS_3

by Alexandre Belin (Amsterdam U)

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

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Description
I will describe a subset of the landscape of 2d CFTs which have a large central charge. These theories are constructed from the tensor product of N non-interacting copies of a given CFT by orbifolding by a subgroup of the symmetric group. I will discuss which of these theories have a well defined large N limit and thus a semi-classical gravity dual. I will then describe features of these theories including universal properties of their spectrum and correlation functions. Finally, I will discuss possible extensions to higher dimensions.