Generalized Global Symmetries and the Swampland

by Tom Rudelius (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Wednesday 29 Jul 2020, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

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Standard lore holds that a consistent theory of quantum gravity cannot have exact global symmetries. In this talk, I will show how simple generalizations of this lore can be used to motivate a number of other well-supported "Swampland conjectures," thereby highlighting the importance of global symmetries for understanding universal features of quantum gravity. I will remark briefly on possible consequences for phenomenology. 

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