Nov 3 – 5, 2025
ETH, Zurich
Europe/Zurich timezone

Is Love positive?

Nov 5, 2025, 11:00 AM
1h
E51, HIT building (ETH, Zurich)

E51, HIT building

ETH, Zurich

Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich

Speaker

Paolo Creminelli (ICTP Trieste)

Description

I will show that in the regime of weak gravity, all electric Love numbers are strictly positive. The statement is based on a Kramers-Kronig dispersion relation and it requires some assumptions that I will discuss with several examples.

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