Review of Lattice Supersymmetry and Gauge-Gravity Duality

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent numerical simulation efforts that provide strong evidence supporting the gauge-gravity duality conjecture by comparing non-perturbative gauge theory results with quantum gravity predictions.

Contribution

It summarizes the latest computational validations of gauge-gravity duality, especially in the context of D0-branes and black hole geometries at finite temperature.

Findings

Non-perturbative gauge theory results agree with gravity predictions.

Simulations support the validity of gauge-gravity duality.

Insights into quantum black holes and gravity from gauge theory.

Abstract

We review the status of recent investigations on validating the gauge-gravity duality conjecture through numerical simulations of strongly coupled maximally supersymmetric thermal gauge theories. In the simplest setting, the gauge-gravity duality connects systems of D0-branes and black hole geometries at finite temperature to maximally supersymmetric gauged quantum mechanics at the same temperature. Recent simulations show that non-perturbative gauge theory results give excellent agreement with the quantum gravity predictions, thus proving strong evidence for the validity of the duality conjecture and more insight into quantum black holes and gravity.