Theorie-Palaver

Dec. 7, 2021 at 2 p.m. in Lorentz room (Staudingerweg 7, 5th floor) and via Zoom

Upalaparna Banerjee

Federico Gasparotto

Pouria Mazloumi

Yong Xu

Convexity of Charged Operators in CFTs and the Weak Gravity Conjecture
Eran Palti (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)


In this talk, I will introduce a particular formulation of the Weak Gravity Conjecture in AdS space in terms of the self-binding energy of a particle. The holographic CFT dual of this formulation corresponds to a certain convex-like structure for operators charged under continuous global symmetries. Motivated by this, we propose a conjecture that this convexity is a general property of all CFTs, not just those with weakly-curved gravitational duals. It is possible to test this in simple CFTs, the conjecture passes all the tests performed so far.