Researchers at Stanford and Boston University construct two dimensional CFTs with the right properties to be holographic duals of three-dimensional supergravity. They spoke to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical about their Publisher’s Pick Who are you? … Read More ›
Conformal Field Theory
John Cardy’s scale-invariant journey in low dimensions: a special issue for his 70th birthday
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor John Cardy with a special issue collection spearheaded by guest editors Pasquale Calabrese, Paul Fendley and Uwe C Täuber. The issue is nearing final completion and JPhys+ would like to… Read More ›
Extending the reach of integrability in AdS/CFT as far as possible
In their recently published Emerging Talents paper in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Stijn van Tongeren and Ben Hoare study Jordanian deformations of AdS5 and supergravity. Stijn has taken the time to answer some questions from JPhys+ to tell… Read More ›
Meet the winners of the Journal of Physics A 2017 Best Paper Prizes: Part 2
In the second of a series of interviews, meet Simone Giombi, Igor Klebanov and Grigory Tarnopolsky, the authors of Conformal QED d , F-theorem and the ε expansion.
Image of the Week: Free and Boundary Loops
Today’s Image of the Week comes from a study of A formula for crossing probabilities of critical systems inside polygons. The manuscript is from our Emerging Talents special issue on Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Steven Flores, currently… Read More ›