PIRSA:23100058

Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity

APA

Donoghue, J. (2023). Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/23100058

MLA

Donoghue, John. Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Oct. 23, 2023, https://pirsa.org/23100058

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:23100058,
            doi = {10.48660/23100058},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/23100058},
            author = {Donoghue, John},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2023},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:23100058 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/pirsa/23100058}}
          }
          

John Donoghue University of Massachusetts Amherst

Talk numberPIRSA:23100058

Abstract

I will briefly review the key concepts underlying the Effective Field Theory of General Relativity, and give a couple of examples of how it works. Then I will describe seven lessons which can be extracted from the theory. Finally I discuss some of the limitations of the EFT framework.