Motivated by conceptual problems in quantum theories of gravity, the gravitational eikonal
approach, inspired by its electromagnetic predecessor, has been successfully applied to the …

Conformal field theories have been long known to describe the fascinating universal physics
of scale invariant critical points. They describe continuous phase transitions in fluids …

A bstract In [1] we gave a precise holographic calculation of chaos at the scrambling time
scale. We studied the influence of a small perturbation, long in the past, on a two-sided …

A bstract We consider higher derivative corrections to the graviton three-point coupling
within a weakly coupled theory of gravity. Lorentz invariance allows further structures …

A bstract It is a long-standing conjecture that any CFT with a large central charge and a large
gap∆ gap in the spectrum of higher-spin single-trace operators must be dual to a local …

We study chaotic dynamics in two-dimensional conformal field theory through out-of-time
order thermal correlators of the form $\langle W (t) VW (t) V\rangle $. We reproduce bulk …

A bstract We consider several aspects of unitary higher-dimensional conformal field theories
(CFTs). We first study massive deformations that trigger a flow to a gapped phase. Deep …

A bstract We take an analytic approach to the CFT bootstrap, studying the 4-pt correlators of
d> 2 dimensional CFTs in an Eikonal-type limit, where the conformal cross ratios satisfy …

A bstract We begin by explicating a recent proof of the cluster decomposition principle in
AdS≥ 4 from the CFT≥ 3 bootstrap. The CFT argument also computes the leading …

We explore the Mellin representation of conformal correlation functions recently proposed by
Mack. Examples in the AdS/CFT context reinforce the analogy between Mellin amplitudes …