João Penedones

João Penedones
Born 1980
Residence Portugal
Citizenship Portugal
Nationality Portuguese
Institutions EPFL, Universidade do Porto
Thesis High Energy Scattering in the AdS/CFT Correspondence (2007)
Doctoral advisor Miguel Costa
Website
https://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/people/joao-penedones

João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes is a Portuguese theoretical physicist who has done significant work in the area of quantum field theory. He is currently a tenure track professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

One of his most important contributions is a conjecture about the conditions upon which a conformal field theory has a gravity dual.[1]

Correlation functions of local operators living on the boundary of AdS are the natural analogues of scattering amplitudes. This connection is made more manifest once the correlation function is expressed in terms of Mellin amplitudes as suggested by Penedones.[2]

References

  1. Heemskerk, Idse and Penedones, Joao and Polchinski, Joseph and Sully, James (2009). "Holography from Conformal Field Theory". JHEP. 0910: 079. arXiv:0907.0151Freely accessible. doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/079.
  2. Penedones, Joao (2011). "Writing CFT correlation functions as AdS scattering amplitudes". JHEP. 25: 01. arXiv:1011.1485Freely accessible. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2011)025.
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