| Speaker: |
Ruth Gregory (Durham Univ) |
| Title: |
Holography and braneworld black holes. |
| Date (JST): |
Thu, Apr 02, 2009, 13:30 - 14:30 |
| Place: |
Seminar Room at IPMU Prefab. B |
| Abstract: |
Braneworlds are a fascinating way of hiding extra dimensions by confining ourselves to live on a brane. One particular model (Randall-Sundrum) has a link to string theory via living in anti de Sitter space. I'll describe how the ads/cft correspondence has been used to claim that a braneworld black hole would tell us how Hawking radiation back reacts on spacetime, thus solving one of the outstanding problems of quantum gravity - the ultimate fate of an evaporating black hole. I'll review evidence for this conjecture, ending with some recent work that shows it may be problematic.
|
| Contact: |
Damien Easson |
