SPS Journal Club: ‘Probing the Rigidity of String Theory’

Speaker: Georgina Staudt (Max Planck Institute Munich)

Venue&Time: Red Room / 12:00

Abstract: We investigate the deformability of the Veneziano amplitude. If string theory is the unique theory of quantum gravity, the tree level amplitudes of weak coupling limits should be non-deformable. We make progress in this direction for tachyon-free superstring theories by deriving a general positivity bound and excluding some specific families of deformations.