Research Interest of Vishnu Jejjala

      Publication 1: The Geometry of Particle Physics (URL)
      Publication 2: The Library of Babel: On the origin of gravitational thermodynamics (URL)
      Publication 3: Non-supersymmetric smooth geometries and D1-D5-P bound states (URL)

    URL of Research: http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/~dma1vj/research.pdf

Statement of Interest:


  My work principally concentrates on studying gravity and quantum
field theories. I am interested in probing the origin of gravitational
thermodynamics. Building upon prior work by myself, collaborators, and
colleagues, I seek to explore the statistical mechanics of AdS black
holes via the dual CFT. I want to identify black hole microstates and
the corresponding CFT operators and understand their physics, both in
cases with and without supersymmetry. I also want to develop a better
understanding of how the Standard Model descends from string
theory. By exploring the moduli space of N=1 theories such as the
MSSM, I wish to relate geometric structures in the vacuum manifold to
interesting phenomenology. As well, I want to exploit insights about
the algebraic geometry of the vacuum manifold of the low-energy theory
to realize these structures within string theory.