14–18 Sept 2026
Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics
Europe/Berlin timezone

Positivity at finite coupling

16 Sept 2026, 11:00
1h
Seminar Room bctp (Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics)

Seminar Room bctp

Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics

Speaker

Francesco Riva

Description

I will review how causality and unitarity impose positivity bounds on effective field theories via dispersion relations on the 2-2 scattering amplitude, and I will show what happens in contexts like QED or GR, where IR effects affect the amplitude picture.

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