Seminar series
Date
Fri, 27 Feb 2026
12:00
Location
L5
Speaker
David Skinner
Organisation
Cambridge DAMTP

I’ll discuss a top down example of holography at zero ’t Hooft coupling. The gauge side is self-dual N=4 SYM, whilst the gravitational side is the closed topological B-model on a certain Calabi-Yau 7-fold that fibres over twistor space. As an application, I’ll discuss an interpretation of correlation functions of certain determinant operators in sI’ll discuss a top down example of holography at zero ’t Hooft coupling. The gauge side is self-dual N=4 SYM, whilst the gravitational side is the closed topological B-model on a certain Calabi-Yau 7-fold that fibres over twistor space. As an application, I’ll discuss an interpretation of correlation functions of certain determinant operators in self-dual SYM in terms of giant graviton D-branes on this 7-fold.elf-dual SYM in terms of giant graviton D-branes on this 7-fold.

Joint with Atul Sharma arxiv:2512.04152.

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