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MP: Fachverband Theoretische und Mathematische Grundlagen der Physik

MP 6: Nonperturbative QFT and Strong Fields

MP 6.3: Talk

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 14:40–15:00, Z6 - SR 1.012

A curvature bound from gravitational catalysis — •Riccardo Martini and Holger Gies — TPI, FSU Jena

Gravitational catalysis expresses an interplay between the curvature of the spacetime and fluctuation-induced mass generation of quantum matter. I will show how a scale-dependent analysis of this phenomenon on local AdS backgrounds allow us to identify bounds on the curvature of local patches of spacetime, based on the requirement of long-range chiral symmetry. The bound will be expressed in terms of the ratio between the local scalar curvature and the gauge-invariant coarse-graining scale, pointing out a dependence of the result on the relevant modes of the observed physics. I will also show some extensions of this result to higher-dimensional spacetimes.