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Title:
Topological AdS/CFT

Speaker:
Pietro Benetti Genolini

Abstract:
I will describe a holographic dual to the Donaldson-Witten topological twist of gauge theories on a Riemannian four-manifold. Specifically, I will consider asymptotically locally hyperbolic solutions to Romans’ gauged supergravity in five dimensions with the four-manifold as conformal boundary, and show that the renormalised supergravity action is independent of the choice of boundary metric. This is a first step in the direction of combining topological quantum field theory with the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=3405

Workshop:
Simons- Physics Seminar