Speaker: |
Kurt Hinterbichler (Perimeter) |
Title: |
Developments in massive gravity |
Date (JST): |
Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 15:30 - 16:30 |
Place: |
Seminar Room B |
Related File: |
784.pdf
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Abstract: |
The idea that the graviton may be massive has seen a resurgence of interest due to recent progress which has overcome its traditional problems. I will review this recent progress, which has led to a consistent ghost-free effective field theory of a massive graviton, with a stable hierarchy between the graviton mass and the cutoff, and how this theory has the potential to resolve the naturalness problem of the cosmological constant. |