New results and outstanding challenges from UV unitarity.
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KMI Theory Seminar
2017-05-16 16:30
Yu-Tin Huang
KMI Science Symposia (ES635)
In this talk I will survey how various physical conjectures, such as the a-theorem, scale vs conformal symmetry, the weak gravity conjecture, can be encoded in properties of the S-matrix for certain effective field theories. Their proof, in this context, is then tied to general features of unitary UV completions and its constraint on the low energy S-matrix. I review cases where such an approach is successful, the remaining challenges, and some unexpected consequences.