An Infalling Observer in AdS/CFT

by Dr Suvrat Raju (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)

Friday 6 Jul 2012, 16:00 → 17:00 Asia/Kolkata

A304 (Colaba Campus)

In this talk, we will try and describe the experience of an observer falling into a black hole using the AdS/CFT correspondence. We will do this by expressing correlation functions of bulk fields, which such an observer would measure, in terms of correlation functions on the boundary. This allows us to translate questions about quantum gravity into more familiar questions about the boundary theory. We comment on the implications of this construction for the fuzzball proposal and the information paradox.