Europe/Lisbon
Online

Aldo Cotrone, University of Florence
Complexity in the presence of a boundary

After a brief introduction to the concept of Computational Complexity, I will show how to calculate it in several theories with boundaries in two dimensions. In particular, I will consider a free boson discretized on a lattice with Dirichlet boundary conditions, and "Boundary CFTs" with a holographic dual. I will identify certain contributions in the results for the Complexity which are characteristic of the presence of boundaries. Moreover, the results in the two most popular holographic prescriptions, the so-called "CV" and "CA" prescriptions, are qualitatively different. Thus, one can obtain information on the fitness of the holographic prescriptions in describing faithfully the Complexity of the dual states.

Video of talk.

Projecto FCT UIDB/04459/2020.