Seminar
Weak Gravity Conjecture from Unitarity and Causality
Prof.
Toshifumi NOUMI
Kobe University
30 May 2019 (Thursday)
11:30 am
IAS4042, 4/F, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
The Weak Gravity Conjecture, motivated by string theory and black hole thought experiments, states that gravity is the weakest force. In particular, it claims that there exist theoretical bounds on the charge-to-mass ratio and the axion decay constant in quantum gravity, which provides theoretical constraints on models of inflation and dark matter for example. In this talk, the speaker will introduce his
collaborators' recent work providing its strong evidence based on unitarity and causality.
The seminar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.
HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study
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http://ias.ust.hk
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