I am interested in quantum gravity and holography. My work has focused on String Theory and Supergravity, holography, black holes, microstate counting via localization, and, more recently, on the connection chaos and near-extremal black holes.
Publications:
[1] F. Mariani and C. Toldo, Gravitational dynamics of near-extreme Kerr-(Anti) de Sitter black holes, https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02674
[2] M. Blacker, A. Castro, W. Sybesma and C. Toldo, Quantum corrections to the path integral of near extremal de Sitter black holes, JHEP 08 (2025) 120 https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14623
[3] M. Heydeman and C. Toldo, The spectrum of near-BPS Kerr-Newman black holes and the ABJM mass gap, JHEP 06 (2025) 177 https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03697
[4] M. Heydeman and C. Toldo, Mixed 't Hooft Anomalies and the Witten Effect for AdS Black Holes, JHEP 06 (2025) 191 https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03695
[5] D. Kapec, Y. T. A. Law and C. Toldo, Quasinormal corrections to black hole thermodynamics, JHEP 06 (2025) 069 https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13245
[6] D. Kapec, A. Sheta, A. Strominger and C. Toldo, Quantum corrections to Kerr thermodynamics, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021601, https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00848
[7] P. Benetti Genolini, C. Toldo, Magnetic charges and black hole quantum statistical relations, Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 12, L121902 https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00605
[8] A. Castro, F. Mariani, C. Toldo, Near extremal de Sitter black holes and JT gravity, JHEP 07 (2023) 131, https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.14356
[9] R. Monten, C. Toldo, On the search for multicenter AdS black holes from M-theory, JHEP 2022, 9 (2022) https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06879
[10] A. Castro, J. Pedraza, C. Toldo, E. Verhijden, Rotating 5d Black holes: Interactions and deformations near extremality, SciPost Phys. 11, 102 (2021), https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00649
[11] M. Hogervorst and C. Toldo, Bounds on multiscalar CFTs in the epsilon-expansion, JHEP04(2021)68, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.16222
[12] C. Toldo, Holographic duals of refined partition functions, Proceedings of the Conference on Recent Developments in Strings and Gravity (2019), Corfu Greece, PoS(CORFU2019)130, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14409
[13] S. M. Hosseini, C. Toldo, I. Yaakov, Supersymmetric R'enyi entropy and charged black holes, JHEP07(2020)131, https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04868
[14] K. Hristov, S. Katmadas, C. Toldo, Matter coupled Kerr-Newman AdS4 black holes, Phys.Rev. D100 (2019) no.6, 066016 https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.05192
[15] K. Hristov, S. Katmadas and C. Toldo, Rotating attractors and BPS black holes in AdS4, JHEP01 (2019) 199 http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00292
[16] G. Horowitz, J. Santos and C. Toldo, Deforming black holes in AdS, JHEP 1811 (2018) 146 , http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02399
[17] C. Toldo and B. Willett, Partition functions on 3d circle bundles and their gravity duals, JHEP 1805 (2018) 116 http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.08861
[18] R. Monten and C. Toldo, Black holes with halos, Class.Quant.Grav. 35 (2018) no.3, 035001 http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.02399
[19] A. Amariti and C. Toldo, Betti multiplets, flows across dimensions and c-extremization, JHEP 1707 (2017) 040 http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08858
[20] C. Toldo, Thermodynamics of rotating black holes in gauged supergravity, Phys. Rev. D 94, 066002 http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.05705
[21] A. Gnecchi, U. Gursoy, O. Papadoulaki, C. Toldo, A magnetically induced quantum phase transition in holography, JHEP 1609 (2016) 090, http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04221
[22] N. Callebaut, S. Gubser, A. Samberg, C. Toldo, Segmented strings in AdS3, JHEP 11 (2015) 110, http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.07311
[23] A. Gnecchi and C. Toldo, First order flow for non-extremal AdS black holes and mass from holographic renormalization, JHEP 1410 (2014) 075, http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0666
[24] A. Gnecchi, K. Hristov, D. Klemm, C. Toldo, O. Vaughan, Rotating black holes in 4d gauged supergravity, JHEP1401 (2014) 127, http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1795
[25] K. Hristov, C. Toldo and S. Vandoren, Phase transitions of hairy AdS4 magnetic black holes, Phys. Rev. D 88 026019 (2013), http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5187
[26] A. Gnecchi and C. Toldo, On the non-BPS first order flow in N=2 U(1) gauged supergravity, JHEP03 (2013) 088, http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1966
[27] C. Toldo and S. Vandoren, Static nonextremal AdS4 black holes, JHEP1209 (2012) 048, http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3014
[28] K. Hristov, C. Toldo, S. Vandoren, AdS black branes: BPS bounds and asymptotic charges, Contribution to the proceedings of the XVII European Workshop on String Theory (2011) http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.6592
[29] K. Hristov, C. Toldo, S. Vandoren, On BPS bounds in D=4 N=2 gauged supergravity, JHEP12 (2011) 014, http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2688
Book chapters:
[30] A. Gnecchi, S. Klemm, C. Toldo, Black holes in gauged supergravity, invited contribution to the book "Half a Century of supergravity", editor A. Ceresole and G. Dall'Atata, Cambridge University Press
Theses:
PhD Thesis (Utrecht University): "Anti-de Sitter black holes in gauged supergravity: supergravity flow, thermodynamics and phase transitions", Supervisor: Prof. S. Vandoren
Master Thesis "Laurea Magistrale" (Padova University): "Black holes and duality", Supervisor: Dr. G. Dall'Atata
Bachelor Thesis "Laurea Triennale" (Padova University): "Extra-dimensions and deviations from Newton's Law", Supervisor: Prof. F. Zwirner
More link to my publication list (with bibliometric indicators):
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PqL3hXEAAAAJ&hl=en (google scholar)
https://inspirehep.net/authors/1121805?ui-citation-summary=true (inspire)
I am a referee for the journals Phys. Rev. Letters, Journal of High Energy Physics JHEP, Phys. Rev. D, SciPost, Classical and Quantum Gravity, European Physics Journal A, European Physics Journal C, Modern Physics Letters A.