A CFT distance conjecture

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2021)070zbMath1476.81122arXiv2011.10040OpenAlexW3206502786WikidataQ113906443 ScholiaQ113906443MaRDI QIDQ825682

Cumrun Vafa, Eric Perlmutter, Irene Valenzuela, Leonardo Rastelli

Publication date: 17 December 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10040

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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