Gabriele Veneziano - An Intriguing Puzzle and its Happy Resolution
Channel: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS)
Date: 18/10/2021

Gabriele Veneziano, CERN & Collège de France

An Intriguing Puzzle and its Happy Resolution

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.