String Theory Seminar: Simon Caron-Huot (McGill) “Looking for a bulk point in general geometries”

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Abstract: In a spacetime with asymptotically anti-de-Sitter boundaries, localized bulk events produce characteristic signals at boundary locations lightlike-separated from the event. We describe (thought) experiments that use boundary wavepackets to amplify these signals and explain how to quantitatively read off the bulk scattering amplitudes and bulk geometry around essentially any bulk point.  We also discuss some new signatures of bulk causality on boundary correlation functions.