Arvind Shekar

Research Interests

My goal is to understand the fundamental laws of our Universe better. My current research is centered around realizing a theory of Quantum Gravity. Towards this, I use and study holographic dualities (duality relating gravitational theories to theories without gravity in one lower dimension), and quantum information tools. Black holes, asymptotic observables, holography, foundations... have been on my mind for sometime recently. 

Recent Publications

1. Replica analysis of entanglement properties,

2. Islands and entanglement entropy in 𝑑-dimensional curved backgrounds, 

3. Carrollian Conformal Theories in Momentum Space.

4. Circuit complexity in interacting QFTs and RG flows.

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Education

• University of Southampton United Kingdom

       PhD (String theory, Quantum Gravity and Holography)    

       Supervisors: Marika Taylor, Kostas Skenderis - 2021 - present

• University of Cambridge United Kingdom

Master of Advanced Study (MASt) in Applied Mathematics - 2019 - 2020

• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Science (Research) in Physics - 2014 - 2018

• Miranda Composite PU College Bangalore, India

Pre-University - 2012 - 2014

• Citizen’s High School Hoskote, India

Secondary School Leaving Certificate Examination - 2000 - 2012

Visiting positions

International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (ICTS-TIFR), Bengaluru from 23 Jan - 15 March 2023  - Visiting Suvrat Raju

Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India, from 17 January to 09 February, 2025. 

Visiting Prof. Mritunjay Verma - Worked on Carrollian correlators and flat limit of AdS correlators. 

Get in touch at A.Shekar@soton.ac.uk