This talk gives a short introduction to the ``UV/EFT correspondence", which uses scattering amplitudes to relate the Effective Field Theory (EFT) coefficients probed by low-energy measurements to properties of the underlying high-energy (UV) completion. This includes recent ``positivity bounds" on EFT coefficients, which are the low-energy signatures of causality and unitarity in the UV. To illustrate their phenomenological impact, I apply these bounds to a simple EFT for dark energy and compare with recent cosmological observations.
@article{arxiv.2512.25047,
title = {Amplitude constraints on dark energy},
author = {Scott Melville},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.25047},
year = {2026}
}
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4 pages, contribution to Moriond 2022, based on arXiv:1904.05874 and arXiv:2103.06855