Seminar series
Date
Mon, 28 Nov 2011
Time
12:00 - 13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Joan Simon
Organisation
University of Edinburgh

I will discuss the dynamical emergence of IR conformal invariance describing the low energy excitations of near-extremal R-charged global AdS${}_5$ black holes. To keep some non-trivial dynamics in the sector of ${\cal N}=4$ SYM captured by the near horizon limits describing these IR physics, we are lead to study large N limits in the UV theory involving near vanishing horizon black holes. I will consider both near-BPS and non-BPS regimes, emphasising the differences in the local AdS${}_3$ throats emerging in both cases. I will compare these results with the predictions obtained by Kerr/CFT, obtaining a natural quantisation for the central charge of the near-BPS emergent IR CFT describing the open strings stretched between giant gravitons.

Please contact us with feedback and comments about this page. Last updated on 03 Apr 2022 01:32.