DEEN
Magazine Humboldt Kosmos Newsroom Newsletter

Search

Awards and fellowships Search Humboldtians

Search for tags

Prof. Anastasios Christou Petkou

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics
KeywordsQuantum Theory, Conformal Field Theory, Quantum Field Theory and Critical Systems, AdS/CFT
Honours and awards

1999: Alexander von Humboldt Research Scholarship

1991: SERC (UK) Scholarship for PhD Studies in DAMPT, University of Cambridge

Current contact address

CountryGreece
CityThessaloniki
InstitutionAristotle University of Thessaloniki
InstituteDepartment of Physics, Division of Theoretical Physics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Werner RühlFachbereich Physik, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Kaiserslautern
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/1999

Programme(s)

1999Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2021Kalamakis, Georgios and Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Aspects of holography of Taub-NUT- AdS$_4$ spacetimes}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 103, 2021, 126012
2021Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Thermal one-point functions and single-valued polylogarithms}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 820, 2021, 136467
2019Filothodoros, Evangelos G. and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Vlachos, Nicholas D.: {The fermion-boson map for large $d$}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 941, 2019, 195--224
2019Iosifidis, Damianos and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Tsagas, Christos G.: {Torsion/non-metricity duality in f(R) gravity}. In: Gen. Rel. Grav., 51, 2019, 66
2018Ciambelli, Luca and Marteau, Charles and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Siampos, Konstantinos: {Covariant Galilean versus Carrollian hydrodynamics from relativistic fluids}. In: Class. Quant. Grav., 35, 2018, 165001
2018Petkou, Anastasios C. and Stergiou, Andreas: {Dynamics of Finite-Temperature Conformal Field Theories from Operator Product Expansion Inversion Formulas}. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 121, 2018, 071602
2018Ciambelli, Luca and Marteau, Charles and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Siampos, Konstantinos: {Flat holography and Carrollian fluids}. In: JHEP, 07, 2018, 165
2018Iosifidis, Damianos and Tsagas, Christos G. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Raychaudhuri equation in spacetimes with torsion and nonmetricity}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 98, 2018, 104037
2017Filothodoros, E. G. and Petkou, A. C. and Vlachos, N. D.: {$3d$ fermion-boson map with imaginary chemical potential}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 95, 2017, 065029
2017Gliozzi, Ferdinando and Guerrieri, Andrea and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Wen, Congkao: {Generalized Wilson-Fisher Critical Points from the Conformal Operator Product Expansion}. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 118, 2017, 061601
2017Ciambelli, Luca and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Siampos, Konstantinos: {The Robinson-Trautman spacetime and its holographic fluid}. In: PoS, CORFU2016, 2017, 076
2017Gliozzi, Ferdinando and Guerrieri, Andrea L. and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Wen, Congkao: {The analytic structure of conformal blocks and the generalized Wilson-Fisher fixed points}. In: JHEP, 04, 2017, 056
2016Guerrieri, Andrea and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Wen, Congkao: {The free $\sigma$CFTs}. In: JHEP, 09, 2016, 019
2015Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Siampos, Konstantinos: {Geroch group for Einstein spaces and holographic integrability}. In: PoS, PLANCK2015, 2015, 104
2015Gath, Jakob and Mukhopadhyay, Ayan and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Siampos, Konstantinos: {Petrov Classification and holographic reconstruction of spacetime}. In: JHEP, 09, 2015, 005
2014Mukhopadhyay, Ayan and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Pozzoli, Valentina and Siampos, Konstadinos: {Holographic perfect fluidity, Cotton energy-momentum duality and transport properties}. In: JHEP, 04, 2014, 136
2014de Haro, Sebastian and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Instantons and the Hartle-Hawking-Maldacena Proposal for dS/CFT}. In: JHEP, 11, 2014, 126
2014Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Tripathy, Prasanta K.: {The Geroch group in Einstein spaces}. In: Class. Quant. Grav., 31, 2014, 225006
2013Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Singleton deformation of higher-spin theory and the phase structure of the three-dimensional O(N) vector model}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 88, 2013, 046006
2012Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios: {Holographic Fluids with Vorticity and Analogue Gravity}. In: JHEP, 11, 2012, 121
2012Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios: {Holographic Three-Dimensional Fluids with Nontrivial Vorticity}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 85, 2012, 086010
2011Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Holographic torsion and the prelude to Kalb-Ramond superconductivity}. In: Lect. Notes Phys., 828, 2011, 395--422
2011Caldarelli, Marco M. and Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Petropoulos, P. Marios and Pozzoli, Valentina and Siampos, Konstadinos: {Vorticity in holographic fluids}. In: PoS, CORFU2011, 2011, 076
2010Leigh, Robert G. and Mauri, Andrea and Minic, Djordje and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Gauge Fields, Membranes and Subdeterminant Vector Models}. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 2010, 221801
2010Mansi, Diego S. and Mauri, Andrea and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Stochastic Quantization and AdS/CFT}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 685, 2010, 215--221
2010Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Torsional degrees of freedom in AdS4/CFT3}. . 2010.
2009Mansi, Diego S. and Petkou, A. C. and Tagliabue, Giovanni: {Gravity in the 3+1-Split Formalism I: Holography as an Initial Value Problem}. In: Class. Quant. Grav., 26, 2009, 045008
2009Mansi, Diego S. and Petkou, A. C. and Tagliabue, Giovanni: {Gravity in the 3+1-Split Formalism II: Self-Duality and the Emergence of the Gravitational Chern-Simons in the Boundary}. In: Class. Quant. Grav., 26, 2009, 045009
2009Leigh, Robert G. and Hoang, Nam N. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Torsion and the Gravity Dual of Parity Symmetry Breaking in AdS(4) / CFT(3) Holography}. In: JHEP, 03, 2009, 033
2008Mauri, Andrea and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {An N=1 Superfield Action for M2 branes}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 666, 2008, 527--532
2008de Haro, Sebastian and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Holographic Aspects of Electric-Magnetic Dualities}. In: J. Phys. Conf. Ser., 110, 2008, 102003
2008Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Holographic Aspects of Generalized Electric-Magnetic Dualities}. In: AMS/IP Stud. Adv. Math., 44, 2008, 31--38
2007de Haro, Sebastian and Papadimitriou, Ioannis and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Conformally Coupled Scalars, Instantons and Vacuum Instability in AdS(4)}. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 2007, 231601
2007Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Gravitational duality transformations on (A)dS(4)}. In: JHEP, 11, 2007, 079
2007Fotopoulos, Angelos and Irges, Nikos and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Tsulaia, Mirian: {Higher-Spin Gauge Fields Interacting with Scalars: The Lagrangian Cubic Vertex}. In: JHEP, 10, 2007, 021
2006Buchbinder, I. L. and Fotopoulos, Angelos and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Tsulaia, Mirian: {Constructing the cubic interaction vertex of higher spin gauge fields}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 74, 2006, 105018
2006de Haro, Sebastian and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Instantons and Conformal Holography}. In: JHEP, 12, 2006, 076
2006Petkou, Anastasios C. and Siopsis, George: {M-theory and the Gross-Neveu model in 2+1 dimensions}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 640, 2006, 209--213
2005Petkou, T.: {Holography and higher-spin theories}. In: Fortsch. Phys., 53, 2005, 962--969
2004Petkou, A. C.: {Double-trace deformations and SL(2,Z) action on three-dimensional CFTs}. In: Fortsch. Phys., 52, 2004, 636--641
2004Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Holography, duality and higher-spin theories}. {1st Solvay Workshop on Higher Spin Gauge Theories}. 2004. 65--78
2003Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Evaluating the AdS dual of the critical O(N) vector model}. In: JHEP, 03, 2003, 049
2003Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Holography of the N=1 higher spin theory on AdS(4)}. In: JHEP, 06, 2003, 011
2003Leigh, Robert G. and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {SL(2,Z) action on three-dimensional CFTs and holography}. In: JHEP, 12, 2003, 020
2002Hoffmann, Laurent and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Ruhl, Werner: {Aspects of the conformal operator product expansion in AdS / CFT correspondence}. In: Adv. Theor. Math. Phys., 4, 2002, 571--615
2002Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Boundary multitrace deformations and OPEs in AdS / CFT correspondence}. In: JHEP, 06, 2002, 009
2002Arutyunov, G. and Eden, B. and Petkou, A. C. and Sokatchev, E.: {Exceptional nonrenormalization properties and OPE analysis of chiral four point functions in N=4 SYM(4)}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 620, 2002, 380--404
2002Arutyunov, G. and Penati, S. and Petkou, A. C. and Santambrogio, A. and Sokatchev, E.: {Nonprotected operators in N=4 SYM and multiparticle states of AdS(5) SUGRA}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 643, 2002, 49--78
2002Armoni, A. and Barbon, J. L. F. and Petkou, A. C.: {Orbiting strings in AdS black holes and N=4 SYM at finite temperature}. In: JHEP, 06, 2002, 058
2002Armoni, A. and Barbon, J. L. F. and Petkou, A. C.: {Rotating strings in confining AdS / CFT backgrounds}. In: JHEP, 10, 2002, 069
2002Klemm, D. and Petkou, A. C. and Siopsis, G. and Zanon, D.: {Universality and a generalized C function in CFTs with AdS duals}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 620, 2002, 519--536
2002Petkou, A. C. and Siopsis, G.: {dS / CFT correspondence on a brane}. In: JHEP, 02, 2002, 045
2001Petkou, A. C.: {Dynamical aspects of N=4 SYM(4)}. In: Fortsch. Phys., 49, 2001, 617--624
2001Klemm, D. and Petkou, A. C. and Siopsis, G.: {Entropy bounds, monotonicity properties and scaling in CFTs}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 601, 2001, 380--394
2001Eden, Burkhard and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Schubert, Christian and Sokatchev, Emery: {Partial nonrenormalization of the stress tensor four point function in N=4 SYM and AdS / CFT}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 607, 2001, 191--212
2001Arutyunov, Gleb and Frolov, Sergey and Petkou, Anastasios: {Perturbative and instanton corrections to the OPE of CPOs in $\mathcal N=4$ SYM$_4$}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 602, 2001, 238--260
2000Manvelyan, Ruben and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {A Note on R currents and trace anomalies in the (2,0) tensor multiplet in d = 6 AdS / CFT correspondence}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 483, 2000, 264--270
2000Hoffmann, Laurent and Petkou, Anastasios C. and Ruhl, Werner: {A Note on the analyticity of AdS scalar exchange graphs in the crossed channel}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 478, 2000, 320--326
2000Petkou, A. C.: {An operator product expansion analysis of N=4 SYM(4) at weak and strong coupling}. {International Conference on Quantization, Gauge Theory, and Strings: Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Efim Fradkin}. 2000. 382--387
2000Petkou, Anastasios C. and Siopsis, George: {Lee-Yang edge singularity in the three-dimensional Gross-Neveu model at finite temperature}. 2000,
2000Christiansen, H. R. and Petkou, A. C. and Silva Neto, M. B. and Vlachos, N. D.: {On the thermodynamics of the (2+1)-dimensional Gross-Neveu model with complex chemical potential}. In: Phys. Rev. D, 62, 2000, 025018
2000Arutyunov, Gleb and Frolov, Sergey and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Operator product expansion of the lowest weight CPOs in $\mathcal N=4$ SYM$_4$ at strong coupling}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 586, 2000, 547--588
2000Petkou, Anastasios C. and Siopsis, George: {Renormalization group flow and thermodynamics of conformal field theories}. In: JHEP, 02, 2000, 002
2000Manvelyan, Ruben and Petkou, Anastasios C.: {The Trace anomaly of the (2,0) tensor multiplet in background gauge fields}. In: JHEP, 06, 2000, 003
1999Petkou, Anastasios and Skenderis, Kostas: {A Nonrenormalization theorem for conformal anomalies}. In: Nucl. Phys. B, 561, 1999, 100--116
1999Petkou, Anastasios C. and Vlachos, Nicholas D.: {Finite size effects and operator product expansions in a CFT for d \ensuremath{>} 2}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 446, 1999, 306--313
1999Petkou, Anastasios C. and Silva Neto, Marcello B.: {On the free energy of three-dimensional CFTs and polylogarithms}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 456, 1999, 147--154
1999Petkou, A. C. and Silva Neto, M. B.: {On the free-energy of three-dimensional CFTs and Zamolodchikov's C theorem}. {10th Jorge Andre Swieca Summer School: Particle and Fields}. 1999. 494--499
1998Petkou, Anastasios C. and Vlachos, Nicholas D.: {Finite size and finite temperature effects in the conformally invariant O(N) vector model for 2 less than d less than 4}. {5th International Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and Their Applications}. 1998.
1996Petkou, Anastasios: {Conserved currents, consistency relations and operator product expansions in the conformally invariant O(N) vector model}. In: Annals Phys., 249, 1996, 180--221
1996Petkou, Anastasios C.: {Operator product expansions and consistency relations in a O(N) invariant fermionic CFT for 2 \ensuremath{<} d \ensuremath{<} 4}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 389, 1996, 18--28
1995Petkou, Anastasios C.: {C(T) and C(J) up to next-to-leading order in 1/N in the conformally invariant 0(N) vector model for 2 \ensuremath{<} d \ensuremath{<} 4}. In: Phys. Lett. B, 359, 1995, 101--107
1994Osborn, H. and Petkou, A. C.: {Implications of conformal invariance in field theories for general dimensions}. In: Annals Phys., 231, 1994, 311--362