Massive supergravity from AdS4/CFT3

by Constantin Bachas (ENS, Paris)

Monday 26 Nov 2018, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN)

I will present  a top-down  embedding of massive
Anti-de-Sitter supergravity in type IIB string theory. The main result is
a quasi-universal formula for the graviton mass. I will compare this
embedding to earlier bottom-up efforts to give the AdS graviton a mass.