ITMP Seminar "Euclidean Wormholes and their holographic duals"

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the next ITMP seminar (online only). As usual, it will be held on Wednesday, Mar 25, 18:00 (Moscow time).

Speaker: Dr. Olga Papadoulaki, CPHT, École polytechnique

Title: Euclidean Wormholes and their holographic duals

Abstract: In this talk I will discuss Euclidean wormholes with two asymptotic AdS boundaries. I will start with a review of the Factorization puzzle and its potential resolutions. Then I will present wormhole solutions in Einstein gravity plus matter and their properties by computing expectation values of local and non-local observables, based on which I will propose possible holographic duals. I will end with a top-down bubbling wormhole construction in IIB string theory that is ½ BPS and I will propose a dual description in terms of correlated backreacting Wilson loops in two copies of N=4 Super-Yang Mills.