Dr. Eran Palti (MPP Münich)
- https://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/en/lgt/seminars/qft-colloquium-v1/events/ss2019/20190517
- Dr. Eran Palti (MPP Münich)
- 2019-05-17T13:30:00+02:00
- 2019-05-17T14:30:00+02:00
- The Swampland and Emergence
- What QFT Colloquium
- When May 17, 2019 from 01:30 to 02:30
- Where Hörsaal 0'310, Erwin Schrödinger Zentrum, Rudower Chaussee 26, 12489 Berlin
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The Swampland and Emergence
The Swampland program aims to distinguish effective field theories that can be consistently completed into quantum gravity in the ultraviolet from those which cannot. It has lead to a number of proposals, or conjectures, regarding the required properties of effective theories. I will review some of the evidence for these and propose that they arise due to a particular aspect of duality where propagating fields in the infrared are emergent from the collective properties of infinite towers of states. Time permitting, I will discuss some applications of the conjectures, in particular to accelerating cosmologies and to massive spin-2 fields.
Coffee and cookies will be offered half an hour before the start of the colloquium.