ITMP Seminar "Love and Naturalness"

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the next ITMP seminar will be held on Wednesday, Nov 3, at 18:00 (Moscow time). It will be arranged via zoom.

Speaker: Dr. Mikhail Ivanov, Princeton IAS & INR RAS

Title: Love and Naturalness

Abstract: Tidal Love numbers of a compact body capture multipole moments induced by external gravitational fields. Also they appear as Wilson coefficients in the post-Newtonian effective field theory of extended objects. It has been known for a decade that Love numbers vanish identically for black holes in four dimensions, which posed a major naturalness problem in the EFT context. In my talk, I will present a new hidden (“Love”) symmetry of black holes, which elegantly resolves this naturalness paradox.

If you want to join the seminar please register here before 14:00, November 3 here.

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