HoloClub: ‘N=1 Supergravity from Super Virasoro TQFT’

Speaker: Sounak Pal (Indian Institute of Technology)

Venue&Time: Grey Room 3 / 11:30

Abstract: I will discuss some aspects of 2D and 3D quantum gravity in
the language of Topological quantum field theory (TQFT). Recent
developments include calculating various gravity partition functions
in AdS3 using descriptions of Liouville conformal field theory (CFT).
We extend this formalism for the N=1 super Liouville case and use
super-Teichmüller TQFT to compute various partition functions of
different on-shell manifolds (admitting a hyperbolic metric with
constant negative Ricci scalar). I will also touch upon some aspects
of quantum chaos and ensemble holography. I will also discuss some
possible future extensions at the end.