"Loops in AdS and Renormalisation"
MPP Theory Seminar
- Date: Apr 8, 2026
- Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Kostas Skenderis (University of Southampton)
- Location: MPP
- Room: A.2.25 - Atlas West
I will start by setting up a renormalised AdS/CFT dictionary, accounting
for both UV and IR divergences in AdS. IR divergences are dealt with by
boundary counterterms, as in holographic renormalization at tree-level,
and UV divergences by renormalizing the bulk action. I will show that
AdS amplitudes, to all orders in perturbation theory, are CFT
correlators by showing that they satisfy the CFT Ward identities. I will
then discuss new methodology for computing loop diagrams in AdS that
makes full use of AdS isometries, and illustrate the discussion with a
2-loop computation in Phi^4 theory in AdS.