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05.03.2024 (Tuesday)

The String Landscape and the Swampland

Regular Seminar Miguel Montero (IFT/UAM)

at:
14:30 IC
room H503
abstract:

It is natural to expect that quantum gravity is not directly relevant at the low energies which experimentally accesible today, since the Planck scale is many orders of magnitude above the electroweak scale. However, mounting evidence coming from String Theory compactifications, general considerations based on black hole evaporation and holography suggest that there are some constraints that must be satisfied by low-energy effective field theories coupled to Einsteinian gravity. These constraints can in principle be used to rule out models at low energies or to connect with observations, an effort dubbed the "Swampland Program". I will review the program, its motivation, and recent advances.