Mar 10–14, 2025
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
America/Toronto timezone

The universal swampland

Mar 13, 2025, 9:15 a.m.
45m
PI/4-405 - Bob Room (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

PI/4-405 - Bob Room

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

60

Speaker

Astrid Eichhorn

Description

The swampland is the space of those effective field theories that cannot be ultraviolet completed in quantum gravity. Understanding the swampland is relevant for phenomenological model-building and for observational tests of quantum gravity.
This talk will have three parts:
First, I will introduce the notion relative swamplands, to distinguish the swamplands of different quantum-gravity approaches. Their intersection forms the absolute swampland.
Second, I will discuss a subset of swampland conjectures in the light of asymptotically safe gravity.
Third, I will explain how asymptotic safety can provide a mechanism to generate universality, when it is realized within an intermediate regime between a non-quantum-field-theoretic quantum regime of gravity and the standard effective field theory regime below the Planck scale.

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