"Anomalies, Chern-Simons Terms and Black Hole Entropy" Dr. Tatsuo Azeyanagi (LPTENS, Paris)

Speaker : Dr. Tatsuo Azeyanagi (LPTENS, Paris)

Title : Anomalies, Chern-Simons Terms and Black Hole Entropy

Abstract :
Quantum anomalies enable us to access to some important information about quantum field theories in a robust way. Recently, the hydrodynamic limit of the systems with the anomalies has been actively investigated, together with its dual holographic description by gravitational theories with Chern-Simons terms.
In this presentation, I will start with a review on the effect of the anomalies in the hydrodynamic limit of conformal field theories. Then I would like to explain how the beautiful property of Chern-Simons terms helps us to compute in detail various quantities relevant to the anomalies through the dual gravitational description. I will also discuss the implication of our analysis to microscopic counting of black hole entropy in higher dimensions.