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SUMMARY:Gravity duals of supersymmetric gauge theories on curved manifolds
  - Sparks\, J (University of Oxford)
DTSTART:20120322T113000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:It has recently been shown that one can define three-dimension
 al N=2 supersymmetric gauge theories on compact curved manifolds (certain 
 squashed spheres and Lens spaces). Moreover\, the expectation value of any
  BPS operator in such a theory localizes\, reducing the path integral to a
  finite dimensional matrix integral. I will explain how to construct gravi
 ty duals to a large class of such theories\, which have a large N limit. T
 he gravitational free energy is shown to precisely match the corresponding
  field theory free energy\, as a function of geometric parameters in the l
 arge N limit.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute
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