25–27 May 2026
Centro Paolo VI, Brescia
Europe/Rome timezone

String theory in the infrared

26 May 2026, 10:30
25m
Centro Paolo VI, Brescia

Centro Paolo VI, Brescia

Via Gezio Calini, 30, 25131 Brescia

Speaker

Ivano Basile (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

Description

In the face of theoretical and experimental difficulties in directly probing string theory in its natural, high-energy regime, one hopes that its low-energy regime feature general properties arising from UV/IR mixing. Concretely, I will discuss how the infrared data - potentials, gauge couplings, Wilson coefficients - of gravitational effective theories arising from worldsheet string theory (specifically closed-string sectors at one-loop level) is constrained by conformal and modular invariance. I will comment on how the resulting scaling relations connecting these quantities reflects expectations from holographic and swampland considerations.

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