Gravity: the force from the UV
Simon Caron Huot (McGill)
Abstract: Dispersion relations are statements of causality. They give sum rules connecting infrared and ultraviolet physics. While they originate in optics and quantum field theory, I will argue that their 'true purpose' is gravity, viewed as a low-energy effective theory. This is due to the unique energy dependence of this force. I will present ongoing work mapping out the space of consistent effective theories, including recent results in scalar models (2011.02957), deriving a sharp version of dimensional analysis scaling from causality.
general relativity and quantum cosmologyHEP - phenomenologyHEP - theorymathematical physics
Audience: researchers in the topic
Series comments: Description: Seminars in high energy physics
Weekly HEP Seminars in the broad spectrum of High Energy Physics at University of Crete.
Recordings of past seminars can be found at conference.physics.uoc.gr/b/hep-kzk-2ad
| Organizers: | Panagiotis Betzios*, Adam Bzowski |
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