Bootstrapping string theory

Funder	Science and Technology Facilities Council
Recipient Organization	Imperial College London
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 30, 2024
End Date	Mar 30, 2028
Duration	1,277 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2928205`

Grant Description

The AdS/CFT conjecture provides an exact description of string theory in negative spacetime curvature in terms of conformal field theory (CFTs) that lives on the boundary.

These CFTs are usually strongly coupled though, which makes them difficult to study using standard perturbative methods like Feynman diagrams.

We will use non-perturbative methods such as the conformal bootstrap and supersymmetric localization to study these CFTs at strong coupling, which will allow us to understand the dual string theory at strong coupling.