Twistor strings and AdS-CFT

• Grant number: 22/13961-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate (Direct)
• Start date: December 01, 2022
• End date: April 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Nathan Jacob Berkovits
• Grantee: Ulisses Marques Portugal
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/14335-0 - ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research: a regional center for Theoretical Physics, AP.ESP
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/00862-4 - Heterotic string field theory in the hybrid formalism, BE.EP.DD

Abstract

The student will study the twistors of Penrose and apply these variables in string theory and superstring theory to study the AdS-CFT correspondence. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PORTUGAL, ULISSES M.. Super Yang-Mills action from Hybrid Superstring Field Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, v. N/A, n. 1, p. 10-pg., 2025-01-29. (22/13961-8, 23/00862-4)