Seminar
Speaker
Eran Palti (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Date & Time
Wed, 22 September 2021, 15:00 to 16:30
Venue
Online Seminar
Abstract

In this talk I will introduce a particular formulation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in AdS space in terms of the self-binding energy of a particle. The holographic CFT dual of this formulation corresponds to a certain convex-like structure for operators charged under continuous global symmetries. Motivated by this, we propose a conjecture that this convexity is a general property of all CFTs, not just those with weakly-curved gravitational duals. It is possible to test this in simple CFTs, the conjecture passes all the tests performed so far.

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