We will have two talks on Wednesday 14/08/2024 at Anyamanee 6th floor
The first talk is by Arpita Mitra from POSTECH will start at 2pm and the second one by Debangshu Mukherjee from APCTP will start at 4pm.
The speakers will be visiting us from 13/08 - 19/08. Anyone interested in these topics should feel free to discuss with them!
Abstract for Arpita’s talk:
Abstract: Recent advancements have unveiled an intriguing connection between asymptotic symmetries, soft theorems, and memory effects in gauge and gravity theories, culminating in a promising variant of flat space holography known as celestial holography. This presentation will cover two significant areas of research within this framework. First, we explore perturbative corrections to flat spacetime soft factors in the presence of a small negative cosmological constant. At the classical level, soft factors are derived from radiative profiles associated with gravitational and electromagnetic bremsstrahlung in the low-frequency limit. Our study investigates the scattering of a probe particle by a four-dimensional AdS black hole with a small negative cosmological constant, examining a double "soft limit" of radiation to extract the "soft factor." Since the leading soft factor exhibits universality beyond tree level, which enables us to derive a correction to the Ward identity in alignment with the equivalence between large gauge Ward identities and soft photon theorems in asymptotically flat spacetimes. Additionally, we recover this corrected large gauge Ward identity from the CFT Ward identity at the boundary in the large AdS radius limit. In the second part of my presentation, I will talk about construction of a celestial CFT four-point correlator for a specific eikonal scattering on the horizon of an eternal Schwarzschild black hole, shedding light on the celestial holography perspective in black hole spacetime.
Abstract for Debangshu’s talk:
In this talk, I will discuss the emergent factorization of Hilbert space in the low-energy description of matrix models and its implications for the black hole information paradox. I will explain the motivation of our work based on the black hole information paradox. Subsequently, I will present the collective description of the low-energy sector of the two classes of matrix models we consider--SU(N) matrix models and U(N) matrix models. The factorization of the Hilbert space in this effective low-energy sector leads us to examine the emergence of thermofield dynamics (TFD) state from a specific fine-tuned state of the original theory. Based on this toy model, I will make some speculative comments on the recent progress in the black hole information paradox: black hole complementarity, the island conjecture and holography of information.