Speaker
Ángel Jesús Murcia Gil
Description
Higher-curvature corrections appear naturally as stringy corrections in the different effective actions of String Theory. In recent years this has motivated an intensive research on higher-curvature terms by themselves, beyond their fundamental origin. In this contribution, I will focus first on showing how a very special class of higher-curvature theories may be used to study \alpha’ corrections in String Theory, illustrating this feature with an explicit example. Secondly, I will present how the Weak Gravity Conjecture may be used to constrain low-energy effective actions which are consistent with Quantum Gravity.
