Black Holes, Holography and Microstates

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• Alberto Zaffaroni (Milan)
• Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00
• Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Professor Nick Dorey.

It has been known since the seventies that black holes behave as thermodynamical objects and, in particular, they have an entropy. To explain the microscopical origin of this entropy is a challenge for any theory of quantum gravity. The famous Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the entropy of a black hole also suggests an interpretation based on a holographic principle. All these ideas nicely combine in the physics of black holes in Anti-de-Sitter space, as I will discuss in this talk. I will discuss recent progresses in understanding this problem, which involve a combination of general relativity and sophisticated quantum field theory computations.

This talk is part of the Theoretical Physics Colloquium series.

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