Tom Hartman (Cornell University) “Quantum Gravity in a Finite Box “

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Gravity in a finite region, with Dirichlet boundary conditions at the walls, can be studied in AdS/CFT as a deformation of the CFT by an irrelevant operator. The deformed theory is a peculiar QFT, but it may be useful as a building block for holography in more general spacetimes. I will review the status of this “T-Tbar” duality in various dimensions, including matter fields, and describe how to calculate correlation functions.