Luis Apolo

I'm an assistant professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA) working on quantum gravity, conformal field theory, and string theory.

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Research

I study quantum gravity through holography: the relationship between gravitational theories and quantum field theories in fewer dimensions. My work focuses on extending this relationship beyond anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes and on understanding which field theories admit a gravitational description.

Research directions

Deformations and holography beyond AdS

I investigate solvable deformations of two-dimensional conformal field theories and their realizations in gravity and string theory. My recent work relates the supergravity action and stress tensor of a class of TsT-generated backgrounds to the partition function and energies of TT-deformed theories.

Conformal field theories with gravity duals

I study the structure of two-dimensional conformal field theories that admit gravitational descriptions. With collaborators, I have investigated how single-trace deformations lift higher-spin currents in symmetric product orbifolds and how multi-trace deformations affect strongly coupled AdS matter.

Black hole microstates and modular forms

With collaborators, I use weak Jacobi forms to connect microscopic state counting with black hole entropy. Our work studies how constraints on light states affect subleading asymptotics and provides a microscopic interpretation of logarithmic corrections to BPS black hole entropy.

Selected publications

A full list of my publications can be found in INSPIRE, the arXiv, and Google Scholar.

Teaching

Lectures

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