Amplitudes, Positivity, Modified Gravity, and Weak Gravity Conjecture

I will discuss new positivity bounds for scattering amplitudes in theories with a massless graviton in the spectrum in four spacetime dimensions. The bounds imply that extremal black holes are self-repulsive, M/|Q|<1 in suitable units, and that they are unstable to decay to smaller extremal black holes, hence providing an S-matrix proof of the weak gravity conjecture. I will also present applications of these bounds to modified gravity theories, such as weakly broken galileons, showing that they have a very low cutoff, much smaller than their strong coupling scale. 

Dates: 

Tuesday, 1 October, 2019 - 14:00 to 15:00

Localisation / Location: 

APC

Salle / Local: 

646A - Mondrian

Nom/Prénom // Last name/First name: 

Brando Bellazini

Affiliation: 

IPhT, CEA, Saclay

Equipe(s) organisatrice(s) / Organizing team(s): 

  • Théorie