1-loop partition functions of gravitational models and AdS/CFT correspondence

• Grant number: 12/00830-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: February 18, 2012
• End date: May 17, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Dmitry Vasilevich
• Grantee: Mario Cezar Ferreira Gomes Bertin
• Supervisor: Daniel Grumiller
• Host Institution: Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição (CMCC). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/07096-5 - Aspects of Gravitation in three dimensions, BP.PD

Abstract

We'll calculate 1-loop partition functions of gravitation models using Heat Kernel expansion techniques, that should be compared to known partition functions of conformal theories on the boundary. This analysis should shed light upon the AdS/CFT conjecture of these theories. (AU)