4 papers
Pure Gravity and Conical Defects
Nathan Benjamin, Scott Collier, Alexander Maloney
We revisit the spectrum of pure quantum gravity in AdS. The computation of the torus partition function will -- if computed using a gravitational path integral that includes on…
Universal Dynamics of Heavy Operators in CFT
Scott Collier, Alexander Maloney, Henry Maxfield +1
We obtain an asymptotic formula for the average value of the operator product expansion coefficients of any unitary, compact two dimensional CFT with . This formula is valid w…
Quantum Regge Trajectories and the Virasoro Analytic Bootstrap
Scott Collier, Yan Gobeil, Henry Maxfield +1
Every conformal field theory (CFT) above two dimensions contains an infinite set of Regge trajectories of local operators which, at large spin, asymptote to "double-twist" composit…
Strings in Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds from the Neveu-Schwarz-Ramond Formalism
Minjae Cho, Scott Collier, Xi Yin
We treat RR flux backgrounds of type II string theory in the framework of closed superstring field theory based on the NSR formalism, focusing on two examples: (1) the pp-wave back…