PIRSA:23100058

Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity

Donoghue, J. (2023). Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/23100058

Donoghue, John. Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 23, 2023, https://pirsa.org/23100058 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:23100058,
            doi = {10.48660/23100058},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/23100058},
            author = {Donoghue, John},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Lessons of the Effective Field Theory Treatment of General Relativity},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2023},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:23100058 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

John Donoghue University of Massachusetts Amherst

DOI 10.48660/23100058
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Abstract

I will briefly review the key concepts underlying the Effective Field Theory of General Relativity, and give a couple of examples of how it works. Then I will describe seven lessons which can be extracted from the theory. Finally I discuss some of the limitations of the EFT framework.