Research lectures, seminars and events
The events listed in this area are research seminars, workshops and lectures hosted by Durham University departments and research institutes. If you are not a member of the University, but wish to enquire about attending one of the events please contact the organiser or host department.
Maths HEP Lunchtime Seminars: Thermal Conformal Blocks and their AdS Representations
We study conformal blocks for thermal one-point-functions in higher-dimensional conformal field theories. These thermal one-point blocks can be represented as AdS Witten-diagram-like integrals. In the absence of angular potentials, the thermal one-point blocks are given analytically as generalised hypergeometric functions. As an application, by studying behavior of thermal one-point functions in the high-temperature limit, we deduce an asymptotic formula for three point coefficients of one light operator and two heavy operators. This result agrees with expectations coming from eigenstate thermalization hypothesis.
Contact christiana.pantelidou@durham.ac.uk or mathew.r.bullimore@durham.ac.uk for more information
