Scattering Strings and Other Things: A Modern Approach to Quantum Gravity and the Conformal Bootstrap

Project Information

QGBoot

Grant agreement ID: 853507

DOI

10.3030/853507

Project closed

EC signature date 13 November 2019

Start date 1 December 2020

End date 30 November 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 444 174,00

EU contribution

€ 1 444 174,00

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COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
France

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Bootstrapping mesons at large N: Regge trajectory from spin-two maximization

Author(s): Jan Albert, Johan Henriksson, Leonardo Rastelli, Alessandro Vichi
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2024)172

Positivity bounds on massive vectors

Author(s): Francesco Bertucci, Johan Henriksson, Brian McPeak, Sara Ricossa, Francesco Riva, Alessandro Vichi
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2024)051

"Modular-Invariant Random Matrix Theory and <mml:math xmlns:mml=""http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"" display=""inline""><mml:mrow><mml:msub><mml:mrow><mml:mi>AdS</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math> Wormholes"

Author(s): Jan Boruch, Gabriele Di Ubaldo, Felix M. Haehl, Eric Perlmutter, Moshe Rozali
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 135, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/4hhn-c6mp

A non-rational Verlinde formula from Virasoro TQFT

Author(s): Boris Post, Ioannis Tsiares
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep04(2025)015

Topological defects and tensionless holography

Author(s): Bob Knighton, Vit Sriprachyakul, Jakub Vošmera
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2025)083

Holographic duality from Howe duality: Chern-Simons gravity as an ensemble of code CFTs

Author(s): Anatoly Dymarsky, Johan Henriksson, Brian McPeak
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

Genus-one open string amplitudes on AdS$_5\times$S$^3$ from CFT

Author(s): Paul, Hynek; Santagata, Michele
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2023)057

The Parisi-Sourlas uplift and infinitely many solvable 4d CFTs

Author(s): Emilio Trevisani
Published in: SciPost Physics, Issue 18, 2025, ISSN 2542-4653
Publisher: Stichting SciPost
DOI: 10.21468/scipostphys.18.2.056

Bulk-induced D-brane deformations and the string coupling constant

Author(s): Carlo Maccaferri, Alberto Ruffino, Jakub Vošmera
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2024)115

Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions

Author(s): Nathan Benjamin, Scott Collier, Liam Fitzpatrick, Alexander Maloney, Eric Perlmutter
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2021)174

Exact large charge in N=4 SYM and semiclassical string theory

Author(s): Hynek Paul, Eric Perlmutter, Himanshu Raj
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2023)078

AdS$_3$ Pure Gravity and Stringy Unitarity

Author(s): Di Ubaldo, Gabriele; Perlmutter, Eric
Published in: Physical Review Letters, 2023, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.041602

Boundary modes in string field theory

Author(s): Carlo Maccaferri, Riccardo Poletti, Alberto Ruffino, Jakub Vošmera
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep06(2025)108

The tricritical Ising CFT and conformal bootstrap

Author(s): Johan Henriksson
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2025)031

Rigorous Holographic Bound on AdS Scale Separation

Author(s): Eric Perlmutter
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 133, 2025, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.061601

M-theory on AdS4 × S7 at 1-loop and beyond

Author(s): Fernando Alday, Shai Chester, Himanshu Raj
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2022)091

Universal features of 2 → N scattering in QCD and gravity from shockwave collisions

Author(s): Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan
Published in: Physical Review D, 2024, ISSN 2470-0029
Publisher: American Physical Society

Missing local operators, zeros, and twist-4 trajectories

Author(s): Johan Henriksson, Petr Kravchuk, Brett Oertel
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2024, 2025, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2024)248

Gauge-invariant action for free string field theory with boundary

Author(s): Carlo Maccaferri, Alberto Ruffino, Jakub Vošmera
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, Issue 2026, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep01(2026)161

Harnessing S-Duality in N=4 SYM & Supergravity as SL(2,Z)-Averaged Strings

Author(s): Scott Collier, Eric Perlmutter
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep08(2022)195

On the three-point functions in timelike N=1 Liouville CFT

Author(s): Beatrix Mühlmann, Vladimir Narovlansky, Ioannis Tsiares
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2026, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

Symmetries in Celestial CFTd

Author(s): Yorgo Pano, Andrea Puhm, Emilio Trevisani
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2023)076

AdS$_3$/RMT$_2$ Duality

Author(s): Di Ubaldo, Gabriele; Perlmutter, Eric
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep12(2023)179

Integrated correlators in N=4 SYM via SL(2,Z) spectral theory

Author(s): Hynek Paul, Eric Perlmutter, Himanshu Raj
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep01(2023)149

Ensemble averaging in JT gravity from entanglement in Matrix Quantum Mechanics

Author(s): Gabriele Di Ubaldo; Policastro, Giuseppe
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023, ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/jhep07(2023)122

Other (8)

An L-function Approach to Two-Dimensional Conformal Field Theory

Author(s): Eric Perlmutter
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv

Analytic results in conformal field theory

Author(s): Philine van Vliet, Emilio Trevisani, Ingo Runkel, Bernardo Zan, Yifei He, Xin Sun, Volker Schomerus
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv

Snowmass White Paper: Bootstrapping String Theory

Author(s): Rajesh Gopakumar, Eric Perlmutter, Silviu Pufu, Xi Yin
Published in: 2022
Publisher: arXiv

Observables of boundary RG flows from string field theory

Author(s): Jaroslav Scheinpflug, Martin Schnabl, Jakub Vosmera
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv

Ascending the attractor flow in the D1-D5 system

Author(s): Silvia Georgescu, Monica Guica, Nicolas Kovensky
Published in: 2024
Publisher: arXiv

EFT meets CFT: Multiloop renormalization of higher-dimensional operators in general ϕ^4 theories

Author(s): Johan Henriksson, Stefanos R. Kousvos, Jasper Roosmale Nepveu
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv

Universal features of 2→ N scattering in QCD and gravity from shockwave collisions

Author(s): Himanshu Raj, Raju Venugopalan
Published in: 2023
Publisher: arXiv

On the Virasoro Crossing Kernels at Rational Central Charge

Author(s): Julien Roussillon, Ioannis Tsiares
Published in: 2025
Publisher: arXiv