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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: “The String Landscape and the Swampland"
Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
String theory landscape of vacua point to new consistency conditions that a quantum gravitational system must satisfy. There are only a small number of quantum field theories that satisfy these conditions and all the rest belong to the `Swampland' which cannot be consistently coupled to gravity. In this talk I review some of these conditions and their implications for cosmology and particle physics.
Recording of talk: https://upenn.zoom.us/rec/share/9gErP3uWygmtROxZx-g99f1PUsXRe2Ft3nA0ah2b2CAtu2qwxXySS-1WCc9XeERE.Q2zUzZXeNuLB9KTV
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