Swampland Conjectures and Their Phenomenological Implications
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KMI Interdisciplinary Seminar
2019-01-16 17:00
Chien-I Chiang (UC Berkeley)
KMI Science Symposia (ES635)
Swampland conjectures are proposed criteria to determine if a seemingly consistent low energy effective field theory can be UV-completed into a consistent theory of quantum gravity. In this talk I will give a brief overview of some of these conjectures, and then discuss their phenomenological implications for current accelerating expansion of the universe.