24–28 Jun 2019
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
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de Sitter vacua in string theory: the landscape or the swampland?

25 Jun 2019, 11:00
30m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Speaker

Mariana Grana (Unknown)

Description

While string theory was believed to have a landscape of de Sitter vacua, the recent swampland conjectures postulate that metastable de Sitter vacua are in the swampland. In this talk I will focus on what seems to be the most solid and generic construction of de Sitter vacua in string theory, that of KKLT, and show the multiple reasons why it might be in the swampland.

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