Cosmology Seminar: Lavinia Heisenberg

Lavinia Heisenberg is a junior fellow at ETH, Zürich

Cosmology with new gravitational degrees of freedom

Learned from lessons for constructing healthy and self consistent interactions for massive gravity and scalar-tensor theories, I will construct the Lagrangian of a vector field with derivative self-interactions, that propagates only the 3 desired polarisations associated with a Proca field. I will also discuss some cosmological implications of these generalized Proca theories and its extensions.

Organizer

Benjamin Racine and Bridget Falck
Published Jan. 15, 2017 5:25 PM - Last modified Jan. 25, 2017 8:35 PM