31 May 2021 to 5 June 2021
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Asia/Tokyo timezone

Chern-Simons Invariants from Ensemble Averages

3 Jun 2021, 12:00
1h 15m
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Organized by Kavli IPMU

Speaker

Matthew Dodelson (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)

Description

I will discuss the holographic duality between a free boson CFT associated with an integral lattice and Chern-Simons theory. The boundary CFT has a moduli space, and averaging over the moduli space reproduces the partition function of Chern-Simons theory in the bulk, as a result of a theorem derived by Siegel. For odd lattices the bulk theory is given by a spin Chern-Simons theory.

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