Gravity: The force from the UV

by Simon Caron-Huot (McGill University)

Thursday 19 Nov 2020, 14:15 → 15:15 Europe/Berlin

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 deriving in scalar models quantitative version of dimensional analysis scaling from causality.

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