Speaker
Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)
Date & Time
Mon, 24 October 2016, 14:30 to 15:30
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
Quantum field theories suffer from two kinds of divergences -- infrared and ultraviolet. String theory is known to be free from ultraviolet divergences but suffers from the usual infrared divergences of quantum field theories. After briefly reviewing the absence of ultraviolet divergences in string theory, I shall describe recent progress towards understanding infrared divergences in string theory.