Holography, bootstrap and defects - Xinan Zhou (Shanghai Technical University, KITP - UCAS, China)

14 Jan 2026, 09:30
1h
Seminar Room (NITheCS, Merensky Building,Stellenbosch University)

Seminar Room

NITheCS, Merensky Building,Stellenbosch University

Merriman Ave, Stellenbosch Central, Stellenbosch, 7600
Programme

Speaker

Xinan Zhou (Shanghai Technical University, KITP - UCAS, China)

Description

In this series of lectures (and seminar) I will cover the following:
- The basics of perturbation theory in AdS and how bootstrap ideas can be used to efficiently compute holographic correlators. The example of 4d N=4 SYM in the dual supergravity limit will be analyzed in detail.
- How the bootstrap approach can be extended to include holographic defects. In particular, I will present the recent progress on giant graviton correlators.

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