Physics

Abstract: I will discuss log corrections to the gravitational path integral around asymptotically Euclidean AdS4 backgrounds that arise from the compactification of string/M-theory. The heat kernel method will be utilized, which divides the log...

Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information
Monday-Wednesday, December 11-13, 2023

Program Organizers:
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Harlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced...

Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information
Monday-Wednesday, December 11-13, 2023

Program Organizers:
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Harlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced...

Abstract: This talk will explore recent insights into the structure of classical self dual gravity and non-Kerr-Newman black holes from the study of celestial holography and scattering amplitudes. “Self dual gravity” refers to a theory in which the...

Workshop on Spacetime and Quantum Information
Monday-Wednesday, December 11-13, 2023

Program Organizers:
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Harlow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced...

Abstract: Post-inflationary QCD axion is an attractive solution to the Strong CP problem because of the possibility to uniquely predict the axion mass if axion makes up all of dark matter. On the other hand, QCD axion models often suffer from the so...

Abstract: String stars, or Horowitz-Polchinski solutions, are string theory saddles with normalizable condensates of thermal-winding strings. In the past, string stars were offered as a possible description of stringy (Euclidean) black holes in...