Event

Talk
Applications of gauge/gravity duality
28 Oct 2013, 15:30 – 16:30

Gauge/gravity duality is a new concept within theoretical physics which conjectures a map between a gravity theory on a hyperbolic space and
a quantum field theory at its boundary. The Fefferman-Graham ambient metric construction plays an important role in substantiating this claim, in particular through the `holographic renormalization' approach. In the talk PD Dr. Johanna Erdmenger will explain these concepts and give a recent application example, consisting of a gauge/gravity duality model for the Kondo effect, a model of central importance within quantum field theory.