Things I Wish to Understand.

 Here is a list of things that I do not understand that I wish to learn about in the coming months.

1. Spinorial formalism in string compactifications.
2. String field theory, I started on the review by Sen and Zweibach.
3. Moduli spaces and Riemann surfaces.
4. Random matrices, JT gravity and topological recursion.
5. Explicit $\mathcal{N}=2$ supergravity constructions.
6. More on Hodge numbers and moduli stabilisation.
7. Computing superpotential contributions from F-theory.
8. Explicit F-theory constructions of any sort lolz.
9. Anything compactifications in heterotic string theory.
10. AdS/CFT in KKLT AdS construction: what happens when you break SUSY?
11. Compute pfaffians.
12. Fully read Ashoke's orientifolds/F-theory limits paper. 
13. Understand Gopakumar-Vafa invariants.
14. BPS states, logarithmic corrections, etc.
15. $\alpha '$ corrections to KKLT/LVS scenarios.

Perhaps it is time to dig into each of these now that it is my summer break.

String compactifications review! (Anti-Quill Part 7)

 A review paper I have been collaborating with Aayush Verma has finally been completed. It is a review on string compactifications and the essentials of it. It covers Kaluza-Klein compactifications, string compactifications, moduli stabilisation, flux compactifications and de Sitter compactifications, mostly centred around the KKLT construction with type IIB SUGRA. It has been a 4-month work in progress that is still not fully complete, but it is a pretty decent paper with some bits of humour. I learnt a lot, and there have been some really fun conversations around such de Sitter problems. Enjoy!

REVERING MUSINGS ON STRING COMPACTIFICATION (BUT MOSTLY DE SITTER)

Blade Runner 2099 Sketchbook | Tears In Snow

 Here is the first track in my Blade Runner 2099 Sketchbook, called Tears In Snow. 

Blade Runner 2099 Sketchbook | Tears In Snow - Vaibhav Kalvakota