Speaker
Fernando Alday
Description
Understanding string theory in curved spacetime is an outstanding problem, as the standard RNS formalism has difficulty handling Ramond-Ramond (RR) flux, which is often present in curved spacetimes. For anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime, a new bottom-up formalism for string scattering is the Worldsheet Bootstrap. This method combines the constraints of conformal symmetry with an ansatz for the worldsheet integral to compute string scattering as an expansion around flat space.I will explain how to apply this method to several backgrounds, including open and closed strings.