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Constraints on Quantum Gravity

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Recently, it has become increasingly clear that there are constraints on the low-energy effective theories of quantum gravity that cannot be captured by the standard Wilsonian paradigm. For gravitational theories in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes, we can formulate such constraints and aim to prove or falsify them using the AdS/CFT correspondence. I will review the work I did with Daniel Harlow on constraints on symmetries of quantum gravity. I will also discuss more recent progress in this holographic approach, and present the proof that Yifan Wang and I completed this year, which proves and strengthens a part of the Distance Conjecture that I proposed with Cumrun Vafa in 2006.

Source: General Relativity and Gravitation

DOI: 10.1007/s10714-025-03455-5

Author: Hirosi Ooguri

Institutions: California Institute of Technology, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,290

Funders: U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tokyo, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science