Oct 12 – 15, 2021
IHES
Europe/Paris timezone

An Intriguing Puzzle and its Happy Resolution

Oct 13, 2021, 3:00 PM
30m
Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center (IHES)

Marilyn and James Simons Conference Center

IHES

35, route de Chartres 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette (France)

Speaker

Gabriele Veneziano (remote) (CERN & Collège de France)

Description

At the end of 2018, a result by Bern et al. on gravitational scattering at order G^3 raised an intriguing puzzle that got more and more embarrassing for about 20 months. Its eventual resolution made everyone, and particularly Thibault, happy. I will give a brief account of that amusing story.

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