3–14 Aug 2026
Europe/London timezone
This is the annual bootstrap conference, which will take place in London during the first two weeks of August 2026

Bootstrapping gravitational EFTs at low impact parameter

5 Aug 2026, 11:15
45m
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre 101 (Tait Building at City St George’s, University of London)

Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre 101

Tait Building at City St George’s, University of London

Speaker

Aninda Sinha

Description

I will review the stringy dispersion relation and use it to study gravitational EFTs at low impact parameter. In particular, we will find that there is a remarkable organizational spectral structure that shows up at low impact parameter for a wide class of S-matrices. After feeding in the Eikonal support, we find Regge-like structures as well as black-hole-like unitarity capped support that respect the Giddings-Porto black hole support curves. However, due to the capping, it is unclear if the support structures favour black-holes over fuzzballs or more exotic stars.

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