Speaker
Description
The swampland is the space of those effective field theories that cannot be ultraviolet completed in quantum gravity. Understanding the swampland is relevant for phenomenological model-building and for observational tests of quantum gravity.
This talk will have three parts:
First, I will introduce the notion relative swamplands, to distinguish the swamplands of different quantum-gravity approaches. Their intersection forms the absolute swampland.
Second, I will discuss a subset of swampland conjectures in the light of asymptotically safe gravity.
Third, I will explain how asymptotic safety can provide a mechanism to generate universality, when it is realized within an intermediate regime between a non-quantum-field-theoretic quantum regime of gravity and the standard effective field theory regime below the Planck scale.
