Speaker
Miguel Montero
(Utrecht)
Description
Consistency with quantum gravity and black hole physics puts
significant constraints on low-energy effective field theories. In fact,
most EFT’s do not satisfy these criteria, and are said to be in the
“Swampland”. Most Swampland constraints remain conjectural, supported
mainly by a plethora of stringy examples. In this talk I will discuss a
rigorous example of a Swampland constraint, in the context of the
AdS/CFT correspondence: A bound on the gauge coupling of any U(1) theory
coupled to gravity in AdS space. This equivalent to a bound on the
two-point coefficient of holographic large N theories. The same logic
leads to a logarithmic bound involving the gauge coupling, the cutoff of
the effective field theory, the AdS radius, and Planck’s mass.
Primary author
Miguel Montero
(Utrecht)
