Holography, Generalized Geometry and Duality

Europe/Berlin
02.430 (Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University)

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Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
Description

One of the strongest evidence for the existence of super-conformal field theories is the explicit construction of their gravity duals through the AdS/CFT or Gauge/Gravity correspondence. In this way, holographic techniques have been very successfully applied to the study of 5d fixed point theories, four-dimensional field theories without perturbative Lagrangian descriptions, and conformal field theories in lower number of dimensions. Indeed, a large number of these have been discovered using holographic methods.

Generalized complex geometry is a well-established and broadly used method to generate new AdS solutions. More recently, String Theory duality symmetries have also been used to generate new solutions in supergravity. Contrary to what happens through its Abelian counterpart, solutions generated through non- Abelian T-duality are not equivalent to the original solution, but represent new physics. This opens up an interesting new avenue for the study of new CFTs through Holography.

This Scientific Program puts together the recently developed ideas on various aspects of conformal field theories (with different amounts of supersymmetry and in different dimensions), together with experience on U-dualities, non- Abelian T-duality and geometrical methods in supergravity theories to attack long-standing open problems: the definition of new conformal field theories, the explicit calculation of their observables and, breaking conformality, the application of these ideas to realistic physical systems.

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      Exceptional field theory and consistent truncations 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Henning Samtleben
    • 11:10
      Coffee break
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      Exceptional Geometry of supersymmetric AdS vacua and their consistent truncations 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Emmanuel Malek
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      Consistent truncations with different amount of supersymmetry 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Michela Petrini (Sorbonne University)
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      Spin 2 operators in holographic 4d N = 2 SCFTs 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Michael Gutperle
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      Coffee break
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      N=2 AdS4 IIA solutions 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Achilleas Passias
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      AdS3 solutions with exceptional symmetry 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Giuseppe Dibitetto
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      Anomalous dimensions from geometry and the effective action 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Kostas Sfetsos
    • 11:10
      Coffee break
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      Integrable deformations and Generalised Dualities 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Dan Thompson
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      T-duality and integrable models 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Eoin O Colgain
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      Black Holes and (0,4) CFTs from string and F-theory 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Stefan Vandoren
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      Holographic duals of 3d S-fold theories 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Benjamin Assel
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      Solving cosmology puzzles with holographic cosmology 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Horatiu Nastase
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      Twisted compactifications, holography and localisation 02.430

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      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Alberto Zaffaroni
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      Coffee break
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      Holographic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of 1/16 BPS AdS5 black holes 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Davide Cassani
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      The holographic dual of the Omega-background 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Kiril Hristov
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      Anomaly polynomial of field theories from wrapped M5-Branes 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Ibrahima Bah
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      AdS3 solutions with large, small and smaller superconformal symmetries 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Niall Macpherson
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      A geometric dual to c-extremization 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Christopher Couzens
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      New results on 5d SCFT 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
    • 11:10
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      Recent developments in AdS_6/CFT_5 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Christoph Uhlemann
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      5d partition functions with A twist and holography 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Marcos Crichigno
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      The (generalized) geometry of backgrounds with gaugino condensates 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Mariana Graña
    • 11:10
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      Higher symmetries, boundary conditions, and the di-baryon in the ABJM model 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Oren Bergman
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      Mass deformations of the ABJM theory: the holographic free energy 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Krzysztof Pilch
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      Microstate counting of AdS4 Black Hole entropy 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Leo Pando Zayas
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      Holographic vacua of N=1* 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Fridik Freyr Gautason
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      Discrete gauge theories of charge conjugation 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Diego Rodriguez-Gomez
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      €œThe gravitational dual of generic N=1 marginal deformations 02.430

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      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Dan Waldram
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      Holographic aspects of electromagnetic duality in supergravity 02.430

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      Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University

      Staudingerweg 9 / 2nd floor, 55128 Mainz
      Speaker: Adolfo Guarino