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SUMMARY:Towards non-AdS holography via solvable irrelevant deformations
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DESCRIPTION:Monica Guica\nIt is widely believed that quantum gravity is ho
 lographic\, namely that it admits a description in terms of a lower-dimens
 ional\, non-gravitational theory. The AdS/CFT correspodence\, which relate
 s quantum gravity in certain hyperbolic space-times (AdS) to conformal fie
 ld theories (CFTs - a special kind of local quantum field theories) in one
  dimension less is a very concrete and highly successful realisation of th
 is idea. Extending the holographic  correspondence to non-AdS backgrounds
  has however proven to be difficult. In this talk\, I will argue that at l
 east in certain cases of interest\, the holographically dual quantum field
  theories correspond to special kinds of irrelevant deformations of a CFT\
 , which are finely-tuned to yield a theory that is UV-complete\, yet funda
 mentally non-local. I will then discuss a set of exactly solvable such  i
 rrelevant deformations of two-dimensional CFTs and show that\, despite the
 ir non-locality\, the deformed theories still possess Virasoro symmetry an
 d correlation functions that are entirely determined by those of the undef
 ormed CFT. Time permitting\, I will discuss potential applications of thes
 e solvable models to non-AdS holography. 
LOCATION:BSP 234 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BSP%20234
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