University of Nottingham

Inaugural Colloquia Series - Cumrun Vafa

Date(s)
Wednesday 6th October 2021 (15:00-16:00)
Description

The String Landscape and the Swampland

Cumrum Vafa, Harvard University

Abstract

String theory landscape of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy.  There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these conditions and all the rest belong to the `Swampland' which cannot be consistently coupled to gravity.  In this talk I review some of these conditions and their implications for cosmology and particle physics.

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