Seminar
de Sitter Thermodynamics from Bulk and Edge Characters
Mr.
Albert LAW Yuk-ting
Columbia University
18 July 2019 (Thursday)
2:00 pm
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
In this talk, the speaker will explain how the exact 1 loop free energy of the static patch for D-dimensional de Sitter space can be computed as a simple integral transform of an SO(1,D) bulk character, corrected by an SO(1,D-2) "edge character", for fields with arbitrary mass and spin. The bulk character captures the particle content of the theory and counts quasinormal modes (QNM) in the bulk. The edge character counts edge modes on the horizon.
He will also comment on the applications to Vasiliev theories.
The seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
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