Date
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
13:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Pieter Bomans

Black holes play a central role in our understanding of quantum gravity, but identifying their precise counterparts in a dual QFT remains a tricky business. These states are heavy, chaotic, and encode various universal aspects — but are also notoriously hard to characterise. In this talk, we’ll explore how supersymmetric field theories provide a controlled setting to study black hole states. In particular, we’ll introduce the idea of fortuitous states as a useful criterion for identifying BPS black hole states. We’ll then illustrate this concept with concrete examples, including the (supersymmetric) SYK model and the D1-D5 CFT.

 

The discussion will be based on the following recent papers:
arXiv:2402.10129, arXiv:2412.06902, and arXiv:2501.05448.

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