String Theory seminar - Nina Miekley Seminar

Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss the recent paper with Mario Flory (1811.03097) where we use the Complexity=Volume proposal to compute the change of complexity of holographic states caused by a small conformal transformation in AdS3/CFT2. This computation is done perturbatively to second order. We give a general result and discuss some of its properties. As operators generating such conformal transformations can be explicitly constructed in CFT terms, these results allow for a comparison between holographic methods of defining and computing computational complexity and purely field-theoretic proposals.