High Energy Theory Group Seminars

Spherical Branes and the BMN Matrix Quantum Mechanics

by Pieter Bomans (Oxford U.)

Europe/Rome
Description

I will introduce you to the BMN Matrix Quantum Mechanics and show how one can use maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to learn about this model. I will employ a novel 'dimensional regularization' technique in supergravity to compute holographic observables in the BMN matrix model and show how the obtained results match with localisation.