PIRSA:15050117

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https://pirsa.org/15050117

The Weak Gravity Conjecture, Natural Inflation, and the Conformal Bootstrap

de la Fuente, A. (2015). The Weak Gravity Conjecture, Natural Inflation, and the Conformal Bootstrap. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/15050117

de la Fuente, Anton. The Weak Gravity Conjecture, Natural Inflation, and the Conformal Bootstrap. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, May. 19, 2015, https://pirsa.org/15050117 

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:15050117,
            doi = {10.48660/15050117},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/15050117},
            author = {de la Fuente, Anton},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {The Weak Gravity Conjecture, Natural Inflation, and the Conformal Bootstrap},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2015},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:15050117 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/15050117}}
          }

Anton de la Fuente

Talk numberPIRSA:15050117
DOI10.48660/15050117
Source RepositoryPIRSA
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

There have been recent claims that the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) rules out multi-field natural inflation. I review these claims and then show how 2-field natural inflation can be consistent with even the most stringent form of WGC. I also discuss my recent attempt at numerically proving the WGC via the conformal bootstrap.