Puzzles in the Quantum Gravity Landscape: viewpoints from different approaches

Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity

Oct 23, 2023, 9:10 a.m.

35m

PI/1-100 - Theatre (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Speaker

John Donoghue

Description

I will briefly review the key concepts underlying the Effective Field Theory of General Relativity, and give a couple of examples of how it works. Then I will describe seven lessons which can be extracted from the theory. Finally I discuss some of the limitations of the EFT framework.

Presentation materials

Donoghue - PI Puzzles.pdf

External references

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