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Black holes, naturalness and the renormalization group

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  • UserJulio Parra-Martinez, IHES
  • ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00
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In this talk I will explain how certain aspects of black hole physics can be understood using ideas from effective field theory. Many of the familiar notions from particle physics will play a role, including the renormalization group, universality and naturalness. In particular, I will explain why black holes naively seem like fine-tuned systems, but they are ultimately not. I will also explain how their effective description reveals a degree of universality that can be used to resum certain features of the gravitational waveform for binary mergers observed by LIGO /Virgo/Kagra.

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