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Departmental Seminars

Supergravity and the swampland program

by Dr Fotis Farakos (National Technical University of Athens (GR))

Europe/Athens
B228 (ΘΕΕ02)

B228

ΘΕΕ02

UCY Department of Physics Lecture Room 1 (Aglantzia Campus)
Description

Abstract: We discuss recent progress in analyzing the behavior of lower-dimensional supergravity theories when combined with swampland conjectures. In particular we will use the weak gravity conjecture and the festina lente bound to place restrictions on de Sitter and Inflation.