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Jul 14 – 18, 2025
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

John Estes: (Super)Conformal defects and boundaries in holography

Jul 17, 2025, 11:30 AM
1h
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Kitashirakawa Oiwake-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan

Description

I will give an overview of the geometric features arising in the holographic description of CFTs with conformal defects or boundaries. Weyl anomalies arising in such theories have a rich structure, as they are less restricted by Lorentz invariance. Entanglement entropy arises naturally as a way to characterize the defects and boundaries, and provides an effective tool for determining certain central charges appearing in the Weyl anomaly. I will discuss recent work on the holographic description of 4-dimensional BPS defects in 6-dimensional SCFTs arising from M5 branes.

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