Solving holographic defects

Abstract

Defect conformal field theories (dCFTs) have been attracting increased attention recently, mainly because they enable us to bridge the gap between idealistic, highly symmetric models of our world (such as the particle/string duality) and real-world systems. This talk is about the AdS/defect CFT correspondence, an exciting new proposal that joins the forces of holography, integrability, supersymmetric localization and the conformal bootstrap program in a framework that is appropriate for the study of defects in real-world systems. After introducing dCFTs and some of their holographic realizations, we will present some recent results for the one-point functions of the integrable dCFTs that are the holographic duals of the D3-probe-D5 and the D3-probe-D7 systems of intersecting branes.