Explorations with twistors and cosmological correlators

• Grant number: 26/02509-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 17, 2026
• End date: August 16, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: Andre Gustavo Scagliusi Landulfo
• Grantee: Níckolas de Aguiar Alves
• Supervisor: Guilherme Leite Pimentel
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Santo André , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS), Italy
• Associated to the scholarship: 25/05161-0 - The Sky as a Killing Horizon and Other Topics on the Infrared Structure of Gravity, BP.DR

Abstract

High-energy physics techniques have become progressively more important in the pursuit to understand gravity. Among these techniques, twistor theory has been particularly interesting due to the role it can play in understanding quantum correlations in a rapidly expanding universe. In this research internship abroad, NAA will gain experience with applications of twistor theory in curved spacetime by working on the cosmological bootstrap. With the technical expertise thus acquired, he will be able to better develop his research project in Brazil by investigating its newly conjectured connections to twistor theory. (AU)