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Selected writings

On the conformal bootstrap:

• Shai Chester, Weizmann Lectures on the Numerical Conformal Bootstrap (arXiv:1907.05147)

Discussion of small N effects in M-theory using the conformal bootstrap:

• Nathan B. Agmon, Shai Chester, Silviu S. Pufu: Solving M-theory with the Conformal Bootstrap, J. High Energ. Phys. 2018 159 (2018). [arXiv:1711.07343, doi:10.1007/JHEP06(2018)159]

• Shai Chester, Bootstrapping M-theory, PhD thesis, Princeton (2018) [pdf, ark:88435/dsp01kw52jb833]

Specifically for the D=6 N=(2,0) SCFT on the M5-brane via AdS7/CFT6:

• Shai Chester, Eric Perlmutter, M-Theory Reconstruction from $(2,0)$ CFT and the Chiral Algebra Conjecture, J. High Energ. Phys. (2018) 2018 116 (2018) [arXiv:1805.00892, doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2018)116]

  [p 2:] On the other hand, given our utter lack of a complete description of M-theory, the bulk is not terribly useful for determining finite aspects of the dual CFT. However, we can turn this problem around using the modern perspective of the conformal bootstrap, which gives an a priori independent formulation of the (local sector of the) CFT. This provides an independent tool for constructing M-theory at the non-perturbative level, a philosophy that we will substantiate in this work.

• Luis Alday, Shai Chester, Himanshu Raj, 6d $(2,0)$ and M-theory at 1-loop (arXiv:2005.07175)

Specifically for the D=3 SCFT (BLG-model, ABJM model) on the M2-brane via AdS4/CFT3

• Nathan B. Agmon, Shai Chester, Silviu S. Pufu: The M-theory Archipelago, J. High Energ. Phys. 2020 10 (2020) [doi:10.1007/JHEP02(2020)010, arXiv:1907.13222]

• Damon J. Binder, Shai Chester, Max Jerdee, Silviu S. Pufu: The 3d $\mathcal{N}=6$ Bootstrap: From Higher Spins to Strings to Membranes, J. High Energ. Phys. 2021 83 (2021) [arXiv:2011.05728, doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2021)083]

See also:

• Luis F. Alday, Shai M. Chester, Pure anti-de Sitter supergravity and the conformal bootstrap [arXiv:2207.05085]

Application of conformal bootstrap to experimental superfluid-transition:

• Shai Chester, Walter Landry, Junyu Liu, David Poland, David Simmons-Duffin, Ning Su, Alessandro Vichi, Carving out OPE space and precise $O(2)$ model critical exponents, JHEP 06 (2020) 142 (arXiv:1912.03324)

  exposition in:

  Slava Rychkov, Conformal bootstrap and the $\lambda$-point specific heat experimental anomaly, Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics recommendation 2020 (pdf, doi:10.36471/JCCM_January_2020_02)

On the AdS-CFT correspondence for higher spin gauge theory:

• Ofer Aharony, Shai Chester, Erez Urbach, A Derivation of AdS/CFT for Vector Models (arXiv:2011.06328)

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