Anisotropic Conformal Symmetry and Gravity by Dr. Charles Melby-Thompson
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Asia/Tokyo
Main research building, Room 248 (RIKEN Wako)
Main research building, Room 248
RIKEN Wako
Description
Date: 15th April (Mon), 13:30-
Place: room 248, Main research building
Lecturer: Dr. Charles Melby-Thompson (IPMU, univ. of Tokyo)
The notion of conformality has a natural generalization to anisotropic field theories, using the concept of anisotropic Weyl invariance. We discuss the anomalies of this symmetry, their evaluation using perturbation theory and holography, and comment on their implications for such theories' structure, as well as for anisotropic theories of quantum gravity (Horava-Lifshitz gravity).
