BIMSA > Quantum Fields and Strings Group Seminar Thermal universality in symmetric product orbifolds
Thermal universality in symmetric product orbifolds
Organizers
Kimyeong Lee , Antons Pribitoks
Speaker
Suzanne Bintanja
Time
Thursday, April 24, 2025 2:55 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue
A3-4-301
Abstract
Symmetric product orbifolds form a class of two-dimensional CFTs that in the large-N limit have many universal properties. Some of these universal properties agree with expectations from gravity, in particular the thermal partition function. In this talk I will argue that thermal correlation functions in this class of CFTs are not only universal, but identical to those computed in the BTZ background. I will discuss the implications of this result for holography and in particular with regards to recent developments using von Neumann algebras.