What can Black Holes teach us about the IR and UV?
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-02-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Combining insights from both the effective field theory of quantum gravity and black hole thermodynamics, we derive two novel consistency relations to be satisfied by any quantum theory of gravity. First, we show that a particular combination of the number of massless (light) fields in the theory must take integer values. Second, we show that, once the massless spectrum is fixed, the Wilson coefficient of the Kretschmann scalar in the low-energy effective theory is fully determined by the logarithm of a single natural number.
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@article{arxiv.2002.00980,
title = {What can Black Holes teach us about the IR and UV?},
author = {Basem Kamal El-Menoufi and Sonali Mohapatra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.00980},
year = {2020}
}
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6 pages. To appear in Physical Review D