String Theory seminar - Ioannis Papadimitriou Seminar

Supersymmetric localization is a powerful technique that permits certain observables in supersymmetric quantum field theories to be computed analytically, and has led to a plethora of new possible precision tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence. These tests, however, require a careful definition of the holographic dictionary in the presence of arbitrary sources for gauge invariant local operators, preserving supersymmetry. After briefly reviewing recent progress in determining the holographic supersymmetric renormalization scheme and the related open problems, I will present a systematic algorithm for computing supersymmetric observables holographically in N=2 gauged supergravity, both in four and five dimensions.