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Fantastic periods and where to find them
Sommerfeld Theory Colloquium (ASC)
English - June 26, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour - 507 MB Video - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsScience physics theoretical physics colloquium distinguished speakers astrophysics particle physics solid state physics quantum physics gravity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After a short introduction to the swampland program and the challenges one faces in explicit tests of some conjectures, this talk will focus on the computation of periods and their application to the swampland program. A detailed understanding of periods allows to answer questions about the existence of solutions or the finiteness of the string landscape, as well as explicit constructions of models. Moreover, applications of periods outside of string compactifications are discussed, such as the computation of Feynman integrals, the tameness of QFTs and the appearance of periods in many other physical systems.