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Selected writings

On the weak gravity conjecture

in relation to naturalness

• Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen: Naturalness and the Weak Gravity Conjecture, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 051601 (2014) [arXiv:1402.2287, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.051601]

in relation to black hole entropy:

• Clifford Cheung, Junyu Liu, Grant N. Remmen: Proof of the Weak Gravity Conjecture from Black Hole Entropy [arXiv:1801.08546, doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2018)004]

On scattering amplitudes:

• Clifford Cheung: TASI Lectures on Scattering Amplitudes (2017) [arXiv:1708.03872, video recordings: YT]

On using KLT relation/double copy for computing gravitational wave-signatures of relativistic binary mergers for use with LIGO:

• Zvi Bern, Clifford Cheung, Radu Roiban, Chia-Hsien Shen, Mikhail P. Solon, Mao Zeng: Scattering Amplitudes and the Conservative Hamiltonian for Binary Systems at Third Post-Minkowskian Order, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122 201603 (2019) [arXiv:1901.04424, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.201603]

On an analogue of the soft graviton theorem for phonons:

• Clifford Cheung, Maria Derda, Andreas Helset, Julio Parra-Martinez: Soft Phonon Theorems, J. High Energ. Phys. 2023 103 (2023) [arXiv:2301.11363, doi:10.1007/JHEP08(2023)103]

On abstract characterization of the Veneziano amplitude (string scattering amplitude):

• Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen: Veneziano Variations: How Unique are String Amplitudes?, J. High Energ. Phys. 2023 (2023) 122 [arXiv:2210.12163, doi:10.1007/JHEP01(2023)122]

• Clifford Cheung, Aaron Hillman, Grant N. Remmen: A Bootstrap Principle for the Spectrum and Scattering of Strings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133 (2024) 251601 [arXiv:2406.02665, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.251601]

Further on string scattering amplitudes:

• Clifford Cheung, Grant N. Remmen, Francesco Sciotti, Michele Tarquini: Strings from Almost Nothing [arXiv:2508.09246]