Constraints on Quantum Gravity

2025/08/01 by Hirosi Ooguri · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10714-025-03455-5

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Abstract

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.

Citations

• Universal Bounds on CFT Distance Conjecture
• Conformal Perturbation Theory and Tachyon-Dilaton Eschatology via String Fields
• Bounds on Species Scale and the Distance Conjecture
• Symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity
• Gauge Theory, Ramification, And The Geometric Langlands Program
• The String Landscape and the Swampland
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence
• Homological mirror symmetry and torus fibrations

Discussions

• Hiroshi Ooguri (@Caltech.edu). Constraints on Quantum Gravity. #GenRelativGravit 57, 123 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s107... #OpenAccess Part of the "Lemaître Conference 2024" collection: link.springer.c [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]